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April 30, 2010
Chicago Mayor Begs World Court to Overturn Second Amendment
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 9:26 PM
Friday, April 30, 2010: Fearful that America's Supreme Court will soon strike down Chicago's handgun ban, frustrated by the Illinois legislature's rejection of his anti-gun agenda, and repudiated by American courts and legislatures over his plan to sue federally licensed manufacturers and dealers of firearms for third-party crimes, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (D) is showing contempt for his own country's and state's institutions, by seeking a foreign entity to enforce his anti-gun agenda against the American people. This week, Daley called for "redress against the gun industry" in the World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands. Forgetting or not caring who his constituents are, Daley blurted "This is coming from international mayors. They're saying, 'We're tired of your guns, America.'"
Daley's global gun control fantasy received the endorsement of Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter (D), whose enthusiasm for international law is apparently matched by his novel interpretation of the United States Constitution. "I love the Second Amendment," Nutter recently said, but "I have a First Amendment right not to be shot." Nutter's utterly ignorant statement proves that in our country, you can be elected to public office while knowing remarkably little about the Bill of Rights. ...
If only progressives applied their abortion "logic" to gun control; if you don't like guns, don't own one, but don't interfere with other people's right to own guns.
But of course, that would be demanding that progressives be ideologically consistent and rational, which is simply not possible.
Hat tip: Knowledge Is Power
B-B-But Only White Racists Want Immigration Laws Enforced
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 7:50 PM
A woman apparently named Gabriella gives the Tucson City Council Hell for contemplating a lawsuit against the state of Arizona over SB1070.
I would love to see Gabriella and Arianna Huffington duke it out in a cage match, 'Thunderdome' style. Especially, if Gabriella had a morningstar and was wearing chainmail. But that's just me.
Maybe Arianna could have her sisters Eva and Zsa Zsa help her out to make things more equal.
War
Posted by Dave Blount at 6:32 PM
The latest from the war zone:
A Pinal County [Arizona] Sheriff's deputy was shot in the stomach Friday after a traffic stop on Interstate 8, according sheriff's officials.
Authorities said the deputy was shot by a suspected undocumented immigrant and at least two suspects were being sought.
Local radio (KFYI) is reporting that the weapon used was an AK-47 or something similar.
Yet the Obama Administration, the mainstream media, and the rest of the liberal establishment aren't siding with American citizens who want to protect themselves from this mayhem by enforcing federal immigration law. By waging their sanctimonious propaganda war against SB 1070, the people of Arizona, American sovereignty, and the rule of law, they're siding with guys like this:
If that doesn't make them the enemy, what would?
Man of the People
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:47 PM
Since Kendrick Meek's Senate campaign in Florida is foundering in the mid-teens to low twenties in the polls, Democrats are desperate to recruit a stronger candidate. They think they may have found one in Jeff Greene. Jeff Greene is the ideal candidate to appeal to middle and working class voters... he's a billionaire who made his fortune by shorting the real estate market Goldman-Sachs style. Yeah, there's a guy who understands the problems of regular voters. You know, the outrageous rates for yacht insurance. The chronic headache of insolent butlers. The antiquated air traffic control system that keeps your G5 in a holding pattern for twenty minutes. The outrageous price of arugula at Whole Foods.
But mainly, the irony of the Democrats trying to recruit a candidate who got rich off the same schemes they're prosecuting Goldman-Sachs for... it's so sweet it must be fattening.
You're So Vain
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 3:50 PM
Q. How many virgins had to be ritually slaughtered so that Nancy Pelosi could bathe in their blood and go from this...
... to this?
I mean, it's gotta be dead virgins, right? Or maybe the blood of children. Or perhaps the New Version of Photoshop has a "Make a Dessicated 70 year old Hag Look Vaguely Human" filter?
Or maybe they just smeared a "Deep Horizon" amount of Vaseline on the camera lens.
All right! So I'm being petty! But this woman has decided to impoverish the next five generations to pay for the nationalization of health care. I gotta vent somehow!
When Good Bears Go Bad
Posted by Dave Blount at 2:05 PM
Judging by the poster in the background, it looks like moonbattery and the antisocial behavior invariably associated with it are affecting even the saintly polar bears:
Compliments of Michelle.
Vengeful Moonbats Target 2011 Phoenix All-Star Game
Posted by Dave Blount at 12:04 PM
Moonbat insanity has reached the point that Yahoo Sports is actually running a poll asking if the 2011 MLB All-Star Game should be yanked out of Phoenix to punish Arizona for its tentative step toward enforcing federal immigration law. Naturally the default vote is for Yes. Cast your own vote here.
The move has a precedent. In 1993, Super Bowl XXVII was pulled from Arizona for not kowtowing to political correctness with sufficient alacrity regarding Martin Luther King Day. Not even the mildest token opposition to the liberal agenda will be tolerated.
On a tip from Oiao.
See You in November
Posted by The MaryHunter at 12:02 PM
White comedian Paul Shanklin arranged a fitting tribute to the Democrats in power.
2010. 2012. 2013.
Comrade Obama Halts Offshore Drilling
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:59 AM
The Marxist community activist that our liberal rulers saw fit to put in charge of the Executive Branch has used the Gulf oil spill — presumably the result of deliberate sabotage — as a pretext to shut down all offshore drilling.
How this would have any effect on the oil spill was left unexplained, but it will certainly have an effect on oil prices, and consequently on our faltering economy. But Hugo Chavez and the Arab World send their thanks.
No doubt the next time an illegal alien kills a cop, Obama will shut down the wide-open border. Yeah right.
On a tip from Sean.
Nutty Professor Discovers Animal Right to Privacy
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:45 AM
Even as they eat away at what little remains of our right to do business and to earn a living, our liberal rulers continue to expand the rights they grant to animals. Dr. Brett Mills of the same University of East Anglia that brought us the ClimateGate scandal has published a study that takes the next illogical step toward utter lunacy by calling for a "right to privacy" to be granted to animals filmed for wildlife documentaries.
At the heart of the documentary project is the necessity for animals to be seen. Dr Mills suggests that this necessity itself raises a series of ethical concerns, but these seem to be sidelined in the moral debates surrounding wildlife documentaries. The use of sophisticated aerial technology to film animals, for example, is justified because it does not disturb them, yet the question of whether it is appropriate to film animals in this way is not raised. Underpinning such action is an assumption that animals have no right to privacy, and that the camera crew have no need to determine whether those animals consent to being filmed.
Say you're up in a helicopter, using a telephoto lens to film a dung beetle rolling a turd around. Even though the bug has no idea you're up there, you are violating its rights, unless you've struck a deal with its agent.
Animals that haven't hired representation present a problem, which Dr. Mills deftly solves:
"We can never really know if animals are giving consent, but they often do engage in forms of behaviour which suggest they'd rather not encounter humans, and we might want to think about equating this with a desire for privacy."
About the only time the behavior of undomesticated animals doesn't suggest that they would rather not encounter humans is when oppressed polar bears hunt us down and kill us for food. So presumably, that would be okay to show on TV.
Needless to say, anyone who believes an animal's modesty is violated by people watching it on television is either bashing their head against a padded wall at the Laughing Academy, or soaking up government grants at an overfunded university.
On a tip from Steve.
Dem-Created Dustbowl
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:43 AM
Literally nothing is more malignant than liberalism, which is destroying our country politically, economically, morally, socially, demographically — and even physically. For example, liberals are deliberately reducing our most productive farmland to a dustbowl.
Instead of pink blossoms and green shoots along Highway 5 in April, vast spans from Bakersfield to Fresno sit bone-dry. Brown grass, dead orchards and lifeless grapevine skeletons stretch for miles for lack of water. For every fallow field, there's a sign that farmers have placed alongside the highway: "No Water = No Food," "No Water = No Jobs," "Congress Created Dust Bowl."
Locals say it's been like this for two years now, as Congress and bureaucrats cite "drought," "global warming" and "endangered species" to deny water to this $37 billion breadbasket through arbitrary "environmental" quotas.
It started with a 2008 federal court order that stopped water flowing from northern tributaries on a supposed need to protect a small fish — the delta smelt — that was getting ground up in the turbines of pump stations that divert the water south. The court knew it was bad law, but Congress refused to exempt the fish from the Endangered Species Act and the diversion didn't help the fish.
After that, the water cutoff was blamed on "drought," though northern reservoirs are currently full. Now the cry is "save the salmon," a reference to water needs of the state's northern fisheries.
Whatever the excuse, 75% of the fresh water that has historically irrigated California is now being washed to the open sea. For farmers in the southwest part of the valley, last year's cutoff amounted to 90%.
"It's pretty hard to keep crops alive at 10%," says Jim Jasper, who runs a 62-year-old almond farm in Newman that employs 170. "That's one irrigation, and trees take 10 to 12 over the growing season from March to October." Almond trees cost $8,000 per acre and take six years to start producing, so farmers reserved their 10% allocation for mature trees first.
This means that future generations of trees are sacrificed, just as future generations of Americans have been sacrificed to B. Hussein's monstrous deficits.
As for the smelt and the salmon, it goes without saying that liberals will side with fish against humans, but there's more to it than that:
The cutoff didn't kill just trees, however. It also devastated the area's economy. Unemployment in some valley towns has shot up to 45%. Mortgage defaults are on the rise, and food lines are lengthening.
All major items on the Democrat agenda — radical environmentalism, healthcare nationalization, Cap & Tax, amnesty, the VAT tax, et cetera, ad nauseam — have a common objective. They are all designed to drive up unemployment. People are less worried about resisting tyranny when they are struggling to keep their children fed — which the government ever so graciously steps in to do with other people's money.
Call it what it is: a man-made drought.
But if we do as we're told, our rulers will let us have a little bit of our own water…
Much like organized criminals in big-city fish markets who see to it that product spoils when kickbacks aren't forthcoming, Washington's pols are now using their ability to turn water on and off as a coercion tool.
Take the three congressmen who represent the valley and how they were pressured to vote for President Obama's health care bill. It didn't go without notice by farmers like Jasper that the 5% water allocations announced in February for all three congressional districts were lifted to 25% for the two whose Democratic representatives, Jim Costa of Fresno and Dennis Cardoza of Modesto, switched their votes on health reform from "no" to "aye."
Devin Nunes, a Republican from Tulare, wouldn't sell his vote, and parts of his district had to make do with the 5% allotment.
To add insult to injury, leftist politicians denounce their victims as "corporate agribusiness" and blame the drought they deliberately engineered on the nonexistent global warming crisis.
Instead of growing food for themselves and the rest of the country, San Joaquin Valley farmers have been reduced to standing in line for government handouts of food grown in communist China.
When liberals yap, the adolescent malarkey that gushes out of their mouths is so nonsensical that you're left to wonder what they really want. California farmers are starting to figure it out.
On a tip from Edward.
Hoaxer Michael Mann: I'll Sue!
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:51 AM
Michael Mann, the appallingly corrupt pseudoscientist who invented Al Gore's infamously mendacious hockey stick graph, unsurprisingly emerged unscathed from a Penn State investigation into the lies he peddles on behalf of the global warming hoax. After all, Mann is a pro at sucking government money (i.e., OUR MONEY) into the university to finance phony research proving that only still more greedy and repressive government can save the allegedly imperiled planet. Now Mann has taken the offensive, threatening to sue people for laughing at him:
The parody video, titled "Hide the Decline," had more than 500,000 viewers on YouTube and received national attention when Rush Limbaugh played it on his radio show. It features a cat with a guitar, a talking tree, and a dancing figure sporting the image of Professor Mann. It's the use of his image that Mann is complaining about, arguing that the video supports "efforts to sell various products and merchandise."
Unfortunately for Mann and his fellow hoaxers, the lawsuit threat is blowing up in their faces now that the bluff has been called:
"The guy is crazy to threaten legal action," said Jeff Davis, the President of No Cap and Trade, a large organization that includes the group Mann is threatening to sue, Minnesotans for Global Warming. "A lawsuit would give us full discovery — and there's a lot to look at in his work."
At first it looked like the typical liberal intimidation tactic of screaming "I'll sue" would silence the opposition…
When the letter first arrived, [Minnesotans for Global Warming] quickly pulled the video from You Tube and their website because they couldn't afford to defend against a lawsuit. But, as word spread of the legal threat to the jokesters, a number of groups, including No Cap and Trade, rallied to their defense. They even backed a newer version of the video titled "Hide the Decline II" and re-posted on You Tube and the No Cap and Trade site.
Let's watch the videos and have good laugh at Professor Mann and his unraveling lies, shall we?
On a tip from Henry.
Calling All Bay Area Patriots
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:29 AM
Despite Gavin Newsom's absurd declaration of economic war on Arizona, countermoonbats can be found even in the Gay Bay Area, as the Golden Gate Minutemen will prove tomorrow:
If you're in the area, don't miss it; but don't feel let down if the local news forgets to mention the event. More info here.
On a tip from Oiao.
Open Thread
Posted by Dave Blount at 7:38 AM
Democrats to American Workers "Show Us Your Papers!"
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 7:34 AM
Punish law-abiding citizens, reward law-breakers. It's the Democrat way.
Monday to Wednesday: Democrats attack Arizona legislators as Nazis for requiring foreigners to carry ID.
Thursday: Democrats unveil plan for Mandatory National ID Card for American workers.
So, the Democrat position is, apparently, that illegal immigrants must never be asked to show ID, but it will be mandatory for American citizens.
Hat Tip: AoS HQ.
Michael Gerson Demonstrates 100% Pure Idiocy
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 6:42 AM
It makes it harder for illegal immigrants to live without scrutiny -- but it also makes it harder for some American citizens to live without suspicion and humiliation. Americans are not accustomed to the command "Your papers, please," however politely delivered. The distinctly American response to such a request would be "Go to hell," and then "See you in court."
Yeah, Mikey, why don't you try that the next time you have to board an airplane and they ask to see your driver's license. See how the nice people from TSA react.
It was often said that the Bush Administration suffered from a communication problem. If idiots like Michael Gerson were in charge of the communicating, you can understand why.
ObamaCare Spawns IRS Tax Grabs
Posted by The MaryHunter at 6:00 AM
Whoever would have dreamed that ObamaCare would contain so many new ways in which to intrude on our lives and complicate the tax situations for businesses. Yet another example of Big Brother going after you and your money:
A few wording changes to the tax code's section 6041 regarding 1099 reporting were slipped into the 2000-page health legislation. The changes will force millions of businesses to issue hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of additional IRS Form 1099s every year. It appears to be a costly, anti-business nightmare.
Under current tax code, businesses only have a limited set of circumstances requiring filing of 1099s, which flag the IRS on transactions that could involve a tax. But thanks to the anti-business zealots who crafted ObamaCare:
Basically, businesses will have to issue 1099s whenever they do more than $600 of business with another entity in a year. For the $14 trillion U.S. economy, that's a hell of a lot of 1099s. When a business buys a $1,000 used car, it will have to gather information on the seller and mail 1099s to the seller and the IRS. When a small shop owner pays her rent, she will have to send a 1099 to the landlord and IRS. Recipients of the vast flood of these forms will have to match them with existing accounting records. There will be huge numbers of errors and mismatches, which will probably generate many costly battles with the IRS.
All this, and for what reason?
So the spendthrift Congress can shake a few extra bucks out of private industry? The business sector is the generator of America's high living standards, but most federal legislators just see it as a kitty to be raided or a cow to be milked dry.
The ONLY possible reason to have this hidden in ObamaCare was to bilk the private sector out of every possible tax penny, to help pay for... ObamaCare.
If you thought Sarbanes-Oxley was bad (and if you're in business, then you do), you've got another thing coming with the Attack of the 1099s. Of course, this all fits because businesses are inherently evil and merely exist to enslave the proletariat -- sucking the life out of the working folk for their own greedy ends. How better to choke off the evil capitalist elite than to bind them in more and more red tape.
Hat tip: Big Government.
Kos Feminazi Wants More Abortions
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 5:40 AM
The next time some lefty spouts the meaningless slogan, "No one is really pro-abortion, we're just pro-choice," remember this:
"Do we dare admit that increasing the number of abortions might be not only good for women's health, but also moral and just?"
The writer --- Aimee Thorne-Thomsen of the Pro-Choice Public Education Project --- claims women aren't having enough abortions, and that she wants them "to have access to all the information, services and resources necessary to make the best decisions they can for themselves and their families."
But there is some information the pro-abortion side manifestly does not want women to have. They are, for example, adamantly opposed to a woman receiving an ultrasound prior to an abortion to remind her of the human life she is about to exterminate.
The author also felt that having a pregnant woman view her fetus before receiving an abortion is the same as:
A: Setting a firefighter on fire before he can rush into a burning building;
B: Requiring a soldier to get shot before he is issued a firearm;
C: Showing a man seeking a vasectomy his own vas deferens by sticking a camera in through his urethra.
PSA: Just because you think you can think of clever analogies doesn't mean you really can.
Item #3: The People the Arizona Boycotters Are Trying to Protect
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:43 AM
When you hear the progressive left wail about how the people of Arizona are such horrible Nazis, remember whose side the progressive left is on...
A 17-year-old Mexican was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday for murdering a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was lured from his vehicle during an attempted robbery and shot repeatedly in the head.
He is survived his wife, Rosalie, and two young children. Prosecutors wrote the judge last week that the children still run to the front door calling "Papa" when a car pulls up to the house.
This is what Arizona is trying to protect itself from. This is what the Progressive Left encourages by their support of lawlessness.
Sorry to start off your Friday on such a bummer, conservative patriots.
Item #2: Sucks to be you, Airstrip One Gheys
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:18 AM
Airstrip One Lefties --- faced with the dilemma of whether to support gay rights or Muslim bigotry, increasingly side with the latter.
Gays: Old and Busted.
Muslims: New Hotness
When you divide people into victim groups and then assign rights based on group identity ... rather than treating everyone as equal under the law ... these types of conflicts are inevitable. Some groups will lose out to other groups. It's a recipe for social destruction.
Which is precisely why progressives embrace it.
Morning Briefs for Friday Item #1: First They Came For the Happy Meals
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 3:47 AM
Santa Clara county in California is fixin' to ban Happy Meals in the name of the latest Nanny State Crusade against childhood obesity. But it's not fascism, it's just liberals denying you the right to make choices they don't approve of.
Hat Tip: Little Miss Perfect.
April 29, 2010
Good News Everyone, The North Koreans Aren't Communists After All
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 7:39 PM
According to this article, the North Koreans are actually Nazis... just like people who support enforcement of immigration laws.
Irony Alert:
The (North Korean) leader is praised for being the perfect embodiment of Koreanness, the perfect embodiment of ethnic virtues. So the leader does not have to teach very much himself. Instead, the people learn the official ideology by learning about the leader; in other words, by reading these fantasy biographies or by reading these completely fictional stories about things the leader might have done while traveling around the country. That is the way the regime gets the message across.
That sounds... creepily familiar.
United Nations to Women: Your Rights Are a Joke
Posted by The MaryHunter at 6:20 PM
It would be a good punchline for an off-color joke, but it's a reality:
Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged "immodest."
I am not making this up.
Just days after Iran abandoned a high-profile bid for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council, it began a covert campaign to claim a seat on the Commission on the Status of Women, which is "dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women," according to its website.
The announcement of the U.N.'s vote (by acclamation = no paper trail) was buried 2,000 words into a press release, presumably in an effort to avoid the profound reaction garnered from past decisions to elect and re-elect the likes of China and Cuba to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights.
What's most astonishing is that the U.N. is rewarding Iran even as it claims that loose women cause earthquakes, a pronouncement that was devastating to one of the U.N.'s strongest arguments for fighting global warming.
Sting Redefines the Concept of Tea Parties
Posted by Dave Blount at 5:37 PM
In case you missed this earlier…
Musically speaking, the sanctimonious moonbat who calls himself "Sting" has all the interest and appeal of week-old Wonder bread that's been left out in the rain. But give him this: he's challenging Wedgie (I mean, "Edge") and even Moby for the title of most obnoxiously hypocritical envirokook pop czar.
Tea Parties used to be all about resisting Big Government's intrusions. But not anymore — Stink has redefined them:
[The recent Earth Day rally in DC] is like a "Green Tea Party" out there. People who care. People who care about clean water and fresh air for their children to breathe. Food that doesn't kill you. A better planet. A safer planet. And it is a tea party movement. …
And people are here to really tell big government that we want big government to make big decisions about the most important problems we face. And also to pressure our corporations to behave properly, as consumers, but we're here to — we're asking for big government, basically. …
You know, the man on the street can do a little bit, but big governments need to make decisions. We need to stop clear-cutting forests. We need to protect the forests. That's the simplest way of cutting greenhouse gases. … And prevent global warming.
So Sting wants Big Government to suppress economic activity in the interests of preventing a problem that does not exist. Let's hope for his sake that the econazis don't start with his own lousy band:
Environmental experts labelled Sting's band, The Police, the dirtiest in the world because of the amount of pollution created during [a] reunion tour of the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Sweden, Germany, the UK, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan.
As he demands Big Government step in to prevent us from living too well, lest it affect the polar bears through imaginary mechanisms, here's what Wikipedia says about his own lifestyle:
Sting owns several homes worldwide, including Elizabethan manor house Lake House and its 60-acre country estate near Salisbury, Wiltshire; a country cottage in the Lake District; a New York City apartment; a beach house in Malibu; a 600-acre estate in Tuscany; and two properties in London: an apartment on The Mall, an 18th-century terrace house in Highgate. … He also owns homes in the Caribbean, including one in the upscale community of Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic.
But of course, one of the main objectives of left-wing politics is to lock everyone in place, so that the rest of us don't get uppity and aspire through hard work to live like our moonbat ruling class.
On a tip from Edward.
Moonbat Tech: Nose Spray Turns Grown Men Into Liberals
Posted by Dave Blount at 11:44 AM
Gender is only a social construct, according to moonbats. But as it turns out, liberal brainwashing isn't the only way to demasculinize men. Chemistry works too:
Women be assured: it's not men's fault. They just don't have enough Oxytocin. All it takes, according to German scientists, is a healthy dose of the hormone linked to female reproduction and men can be as caring, sensitive and empathic as women.
Oxytocin, a neurotransmitter that floods a woman's system while she is giving birth and is also involved in triggering milk production for breast feeding, can also improve men's ability to empathise with other people. …
The scientists from the University of Bonn, along with colleagues from the Babraham Institute at Cambridge University in Britain, gave 24 male subjects an Oxytocin nasal spray and another 24 subjects a placebo. …
"The Oxytocin group recorded significantly higher emotional empathy values than the placebo group," said René Hurlemann from the University of Bonn's Psychiatry Clinic.
The results were impressive. Before the nose spray:
After:
We'll see how long it takes B. Hussein's Science Czar John Holdren to recommend pouring the stuff into our water supply.
On a tip from Forest.
Illegal Immigrants Really Are Abused — In Mexico
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:48 AM
While moonbats shriek about the atrocity of expecting Mexican criminals to prove they're in the country legally, here's how illegal aliens are treated south of the border:
MEXICO CITY — Amnesty International called the abuse of migrants in Mexico a major human rights crisis Wednesday, and accused some officials of turning a blind eye or even participating in the kidnapping, rape and murder of migrants.
Too bad for the media this never happens in the USA. The New York Slimes would have its front page covered for the next year and half.
The group's report comes at a sensitive time for Mexico, which is protesting the passage of a law in Arizona that criminalizes undocumented migrants. …
Rupert Knox, Amnesty's Mexico researcher, said in the report that the failure by authorities to tackle abuses against migrants has made their trip through Mexico one of the most dangerous in the world.
The illegal immigrants are just passing through Mexico, on the way from Central America. Once they get to the US, they're home free, thanks to the de facto amnesty that Arizona has made quislings so angry by partially repealing.
Central American migrants are frequently pulled off trains, kidnapped en masse, held at gang hideouts and forced to call relatives in the U.S. to pay off the kidnappers. Such kidnappings affect thousands of migrants each year in Mexico, the report says.
Many are beaten, raped or killed in the process.
But they don't complain to the authorities, because…
At present, Article 67 of Mexico's Population Law says, "Authorities, whether federal, state or municipal … are required to demand that foreigners prove their legal presence in the country, before attending to any issues."
If only we could import Mexico's immigration laws, instead of importing its criminal class, maybe these people would stay home until they could immigrate legally.
On a tip from Matt.
Clean Air Causes Global Warming
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:05 AM
Now we learn that even clean air causes global warming. It must be true, it was reported by coercively financed government media:
As much of the world marked Earth Day this past week, the Environmental Protection Agency reported that air pollution has declined dramatically over the past 20 years. It sounds like good news, but science writer Eli Kintisch argues that there's a surprising downside: Cleaner air might actually intensify global warming.
"If we continue to cut back on smoke pouring forth from industrial smokestacks, the increase in global warming could be profound," Kintisch writes in an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times.
Kintisch isn't talking about greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide; he's talking about another kind of pollutant we put in the sky — "like aerosols from a spray can," he tells NPR's Guy Raz. "It turns out that those particles have a profound effect on maintaining the planet's temperature."
You might remember aerosols. They came in very handy, before our moonbat rulers decided they were bad for the environment.
Not to worry, generous government grants allow scientists to search for solutions, such as
injecting new pollutants into the stratosphere while we continue to clean up our emissions.
Polluting is a good thing if the government does it on our dime. It's only bad when it's a byproduct of productive activity. That's why Kintisch wants to put "gunk, essentially, up in the upper atmosphere" because "some scientists think we're getting near that worse-case scenario right now." That is, even though there has been no warming for the past 15 years, global warming is so awful that it's prudent to panic.
Saying that everything causes global warming is the same as saying that nothing does, which could explain why there hasn't been any lately. But no doubt the intended message is that since everything causes global warming, everything must be regulated by Big Government.
On a tip from J.
Cheese Louise, Bono, Why Don't You Just Marry Him?
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 9:30 AM
U2 Frontman and human hygiene refugee Bono writes a love letter to Bill Clinton:
There are professors who pretend to be populists and populists who pretend to be professors. But there have never been a head and heart so perfectly matched as the pair within William Jefferson Clinton. It's an impossible equilibrium: wonky intellectual meets "Oh, hell" card player, oxygen and hydrogen. He defies the laws of physics as his daily exercise, but without him the universe just wouldn't be as friendly to humans. …
Where I'm from, he's a mythic figure. Ditto Haiti, ditto Africa — a huge crowd puller wherever he goes. Rock stars can't be President (lucky for you), but we've all got reason to be thankful that Presidents can be rock stars.
Still pretty mild compared to the Andrew Sullivan/David Brooks/Chris Matthews infatuation with Chairman Zero, but nevertheless…
Health Department Closed for Vermin Infestation
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:24 AM
No, "vermin" doesn't refer to the bureaucrats running the place:
The Fairfield Department of Health has closed its building in Lancaster [Ohio] for three days to treat it for a flea infestation. …
The health building … was already being treated to eliminate the flea problem. The building closure marks a stepped-up effort to get rid of the pests.
Chipmunks and bats also have been spotted in the building.
What is the role of the officious petty tyrants scratching themselves and dodging bats inside the castle?
The health department inspects restaurants and pools, responds to septic-system complaints and vaccinates children, among other duties required by law.
But entrusting health and hygiene to flea-bitten bureauweenies makes at least as much sense as entrusting control of our financial sector to a communist community activist and his crony capitalist collaborators.
On a tip from Fiberal.
Pat Kennedy Cut Off by Bartender
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:57 AM
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree — or in the case of Kennedys, far from the bottle:
Rep. Patrick Kennedy was caught slamming so many vodka shots that the bartender cut him off — just hours after giving a speech where he discussed his longtime substance abuse woes, Roll Call's Heard on the Hill blog reported today.
The Rhode Island Democrat reportedly entered the Capitol Lounge in Washington DC at 11 Tuesday night — a few hours after giving a speech at a local charity that helps homeless women — and knocked back six shots of straight vodka before the bartender refused round seven.
Here's how plastered he got:
At one point Kennedy, who is not seeking re-election this year, declared Barack Obama "the best president ever."
Pat's enthusiasm for alcohol has gotten him into trouble before. But he redeemed himself by demanding that taxpayers fork over more money to finance drunks like himself loafing in rehab. Now that his political career is thankfully winding down, Patches can spend the rest of his life staggering back and forth between the saloon and rehab without having to make any tedious detours to the Capitol to cast his kneejerk left-wing votes.
On a tip from Byron.
Now *That's* Border Control
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 8:47 AM
Killing people with poison ... that seems somehow more Nazi-like than requiring foreigners to carry ID, don't you think?
I eagerly await the announcement of the San Francisco city council that travel to Egypt is banned.
Can you imagine the response if Israel had done this? I mean, I know it's Hamas, who lie as easily as they breather, but whenever Hamas has accused Israel of something awful all the progressive lefties in Europe and the USA start beating their chests like lowland gorillas.
Hat Tip: Knowledge Is Power
(I hope it goes without saying that the headline is ironic and not intended to indicate any endorsement of killing illegal immigrants with poison gas, or even forcing them to sit next to a fat man at Del Taco.)
Jan Brewer's Popularity Skyrockets
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:36 AM
Whatever reality the governmedia is depicting with its stories of outrage inspired by Arizona's resolution to see that federal immigration law is enforced before the state goes under, it's sure not the reality most of us live in. Far from being appalled at her alleged "racism," people like Governor Jan Brewer so much better for signing SB 1070 that her approval rating has jumped by 16%:
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state shows that 56% now approve of the way Brewer is performing her role as governor. Two weeks ago, just 40% offered their approval.
Brewer's support for a "temporary" sales tax increase had been crippling her election prospects, but now it appears she's starting to listen to the people, as opposed to listening to the leftist quislings who run the news media and the federal government.
We aren't stupid. We know who is taking our side, and who isn't.
On a tip from J.
Open Thread
Posted by Dave Blount at 7:42 AM
San Francisco Values Revisited
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 7:38 AM
The City of San Francisco is barring its employees from traveling to Arizona because the thought that the state would compel illegal aliens to conform themselves to laws duly enacted by the people's legislature horrified their sense of propriety.
Whereas San Francisco progressives view themselves as the epitome of moral values and civic virtues and feel that their self-righteousness entitles them to impose their values nationwide. Let's have a quick recap of what those San Francisco values actually are, shall we?
Shielding Illegal Immigrant Drug Dealers from Prosecution
Shielding Illegal Aliens Who Slaughter American Families from Prosecution
Allowing Illegal Aliens to Drive Without Licenses
Banning Military Recruiters from high schools
Banning Junior ROTC from High Schools
Banning citizens from owning guns for self-defense
Using taxpayer dollars to pay for sex changes
Banning the Navy's Blue Angels from performing
Voting on a proposal to rename a sewage plant for George W. Bush
Lesbian schoolteachers taking their classes to their weddings for field trips
Dressing Toddlers in S&M Outfits and Parading Them at a Public Sex Orgy
Providing Taxpayer Funding to Support an Open Air Sex Orgy
Mayor Bangs His Aide's Wife and Admits to a Substance Abuse Problem; Re-Elected Easily
Evicting a Business Owner Because Enron Paid for the 9-11 Attacks (Really)
We should all bow down before such awesome moral superiority, shouldn't we?
Paranoid Over-Reaction Anyone?
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 7:18 AM
Let me ask a question: Does a small peaceful Tea Party protest really warrant a fully armored SWAT Team?
Meanwhile, the oh-so-peaceful illegal immigrants threaten to murder Americans with pick-axes.
Federal Judge: First Amendment Applies Even to Bill Ayers
Posted by The MaryHunter at 7:08 AM
Part of what makes America the most exceptional nation on the face of the earth is the First Amendment. We are reminded of this through a distasteful yet correct ruling this week.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the University of Wyoming to let William Ayers speak on the campus today -- and to reverse a decision to bar him from appearing. The university originally cited political controversy over Ayers, a University of Illinois at Chicago education professor who is controversial because of his one-time role as a leader of the Weather Underground.
The judge didn't buy the university's argument that security would be difficult to organize for the radical leftist Obama ghost writer/puppet master. This judge understands conservative demonstrators far better than the university.
The Casper Star-Tribune reported that Judge William Downes said: "This court is of age to remember the Weather Underground. When his group was bombing the Capitol in 1971, I was serving in the uniform of my country. Like many veterans, when I hear that name, I can scarcely swallow the bile of my contempt for it. But Mr. Ayers is a citizen of the United States who wishes to speak, and he need not offer any more justification than that."
The university has agreed to comply, and rightly so. U. Wyoming, a government-funded public institution, was out of line to attempt to silence the unrepentant terrorist Ayers, despicable as he and his opinions are. U.C. Berkeley would be just as wrong to prohibit Rush Limbaugh from speaking there (as if).
Regardless of whether the Democrat party feels so threatened now that they must try to crush the First Amendment rights of the Tea Party movement, conservatives are much better than that. We don't need to fear the truth. Whenever and wherever clear and open debate is allowed on the issues, conservative arguments win.
On an educated tip from Penelope.
Why Arizona Needed a Law
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 6:59 AM
We have a Secretary of Homeland Security who says that asking if the border is secure is "an unfair question." (Video)
We also have an Attorney General of the United States threatening to sue a state for enforcing a Federal Immigration Law that the Federal Government is refusing to enforce.
The inmates really are running the asylum.
Why Henry "Wormtail" Waxman Turned Tail
Posted by The MaryHunter at 6:15 AM
Remember those hearings that Rep. Henry Waxman called, in order to compel those evil big corporations like AT&T to explain exactly why they were declaring huge losses only weeks after ObamaCare was signed? Why did the hearings all of a sudden disappear?
Publicly, Waxman said the investigation showed the companies' disclosures were properly filed. But a new report from committee Republicans reveals the documents Waxman obtained included embarrassing evidence that the health-care law could drive up insurance premiums and force employers to dump employees from their health plans.
Which, is just what conservatives and Republicans had been saying about ObamaCare fallout all along: Chairman Zero's promises were pure folly.
Most significantly, documents unearthed by the investigation highlight companies that are considering dumping employees from their current health-care plans in the face of new costs from the health-care law. President Obama repeatedly promised his health-care law would let Americans keep their current insurance if they're happy with it.
Henry "Turn-tail" Waxman resembles the nefarious Peter "Wormtail" Pettigrew in more ways than just a nickname. Just as Pettigrew faked a violent, explosive death to hide his perfidy toward "good wizards," the olfactorius California Representative appears to be hiding evidence of unpleasant ObamaCare realities by blowing things up -- or at least, blowing things over.
Image courtesy of Framing the Dialogue.
Item #3: Airstrip One's 9-Bin Recycling Rules
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:05 AM
In Once-Great Britain, those who want to comply with onerous waste recycling rules must use up to nine separate bags and bins, or face fines for non-compliance.
The containers include a silver slopbucket for food waste, which is then tipped in to a larger, green outdoor food bin, a pink bag for plastic bottles, a green bag for cardboard, and a white bag for clothing and textiles.
Paper and magazines go in blue bags, garden waste in a wheelie bin with a brown lid, while glass, foil, tins and empty aerosols should go in a blue box, with a grey wheelie bin for non-recyclable waste."
Also, the trash is collected less frequently. Higher costs, worse service, all mandatory; progressive governance at work.
Item #2: Moonbat Blogger Wants "Avoid Arizona" Option in Google Maps
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 3:58 AM
The headline pretty much says it all, actually. It's still astounding how many people just swallow the Democrat line about the Arizona law without even questioning it or bothering to check the facts.
Morning Briefs for Thor's Day, Item #1: Sarah Palin Is 26-0 on "Ethics" Charges
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 3:50 AM
Sarah Palin just had a 26th Ethics charge dismissed as meritless. This specific baseless complaint dealt with a legal defense fund set up after she left office to pay her legal defenses for the other 25 baseless ethics charges; a number of which were filed by fat bitter Democrat scrunt Linda Kellen Biegle.
Meanwhile, tax cheats Tim Geithner and Charlie Rangel continue to wield power over the tax code, and Countrywide Chris Dodd gets to author banking regulations.
But it's OK because they're Democrats.
April 28, 2010
What He Wants
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:38 PM
If Obama gets what he wants, America is over.
On a tip from Shooter1001.
Larry King Grills a Heterosexual
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:15 PM
The weird little freakazoid Larry King is best known for proffering butterball questions as he sucks up to his guests like an obsequious bellhop. But look at the hard edge to his questioning when it comes to advancing the prime moonbat objectives of ridiculing Christianity and normalizing homosexual depravity:
You'd almost think there's something King isn't telling us… something that would cause eight marriages to fail. Nah, the marriages probably failed because he's the kind of obnoxious jackass who would accuse a pastor of encouraging the murder of homosexuals by not endorsing homosexuality.
Via NewsBusters, on a tip from Incitatus.
I Don't Want Barack Obama at Nite
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:01 PM
or any other time. Compliments of David Cholesterol:
Dems on Democracy
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:47 PM
In a democratic society, normal people can be expected to express themselves politically. Yet when this happens, Democrats go into convulsions, shrieking lies in hysterical horror. Maybe the Dems should change their name to the Elitist Authoritarians.
Via Breitbart.tv, on a tip from Milton.
White House Press Corps Misses... Bush?
Posted by The MaryHunter at 7:43 PM
The White House Press Corps (that's Corpse in O-speak) is notoriously fickle and quick to take umbrage when they sense any disrespect from an administration. Could they be turning on The One, whom they helped to anoint, who would have the most open presidency in modern times?
The [Obama] White House has adopted a pugilistic attitude towards the press, lashing out at journalists who criticize the president, shutting others out, and adopting a deferential attitude towards the press corps that has some journalists reminiscing about the openness of -- gasp -- the George W. Bush presidency.
The Obama administration "came in with every reporter giving them the benefit of the doubt," one journalist told Politico's Josh Gersten and Patrick Gavin. "They've lost all that goodwill." It seems that the press corps's offense is questioning the administration's positions.
At least the Obama regime can lay claim to one thing: being the most thin-skinned in modern history.
British Voter Finds Out What Labour Really Thinks of Her
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 3:16 PM
A couple of weeks ago, one of Obama's leftist Big Labor buddies was caught admitting that he thinks unionized workers are a bunch of "rabidly racist" bigots. Over on Airstrip One, a voter finds out what PM Gordon Brown — leader of Airstrip One's Labour (Ingsoc) Party — thinks of her after she mentions to him her concerns about immigration and a hidden microphone captures his subsequent comments to a campaign aide.
If people really knew the degree to which Social Democrats on either side of the Atlantic held them in absolute contempt, the progressives would never win an election outside the most ignorant precincts of the largest cities.
Hat Tip: AoS HQ.
Flush Yourself Away With Resomator
Posted by Dave Blount at 3:04 PM
Great news for envirokooks who would kill themselves to spare the polar bears from their carbon emissions, but are concerned about the pollution their corpses may cause. For only £300,000, you can dispose of yourself eco-guilt–free:
The Resomator is a green initiative that offers a smokeless alternative to cremation using chemicals to speed up the decomposition process.
Each device costs a staggering £300,000 and sees the odd-shaped unit filled up with a mixture of water and potassium hydroxide which speedily dissolves soft tissues and organs.
Here's how it works:
The person's body, in a sealed internal silk or wool coffin, is placed on a stainless steel shelf inside the metal cylinder and then the chamber is heated to 180 degrees under extreme pressure breaking down the body in less than three hours.
Any harmless residue left over is then drained away, leaving the skeleton which is ground to dust ready to be laid to rest.
The "harmless residue" that goes swirling down the drain is what used to be known as you.
Liberals are willing to flush society down the toilet, why shouldn't they do the same with their own bodies?
On a tip from Anonymous Countermoonbat.
Open Borders Moonbat Versions of Tea Partiers
Posted by Dave Blount at 12:46 PM
Arizona isn't just up against Al Sharpton, Gavin Newsom, and the geniuses behind the Arizona Ice Tea boycott. These folks give intellectual heft to the movement to obliterate America's territorial sovereignty:
Once again we see that moonbats won't be happy until we dissolve our civilization and stop existing.
Via Right Wing News.
Sting: Poster Child for Perverted Big Government Socialist Moonbats
Posted by The MaryHunter at 12:00 PM
This video is not for the faint of heart. It exposes perhaps more about erstwhile rock star and perpetual useful idiot Sting than you probably ever wanted to know. Watch for Robot Sting as well.
My new favorite Gutfeld quote: "There's no worse job on the planet than standing over a splayed Sting."
Death Under Socialized Medicine
Posted by Dave Blount at 11:29 AM
We all have to die, but we don't have to die without dignity — unless we live in a country that has succumbed to socialized medicine.
Her 'loyal and devoted' service as a Land Girl in the Second World War won her praise from Gordon Brown.
But this is the horrifyingly undignified state in which Clara Stokes had to live out her last days on an NHS ward.
Helpless and confused after suffering a stroke, the 84-year-old was left dehydrated, hungry and lying in her own faeces in a hospital bed for six hours. Relatives claim overworked nurses had ignored her.
Her daughter, Elle Chambers, photographed her plight and kept notes on her treatment during daily visits to the Luton and Dunstable Hospital.
The hospital has foundation status — a title given to NHS flagships. But Mrs Chambers, 57, was so appalled by the 'inhumane' conditions her mother endured that she has written to the Prime Minister.
Maybe Brown will offer some more praise to make up for her having to die in her own filth like an animal.
But there is a positive side to socialized medicine. No matter how hard you work, you cannot get better care for yourself and your family. Everybody is equally wretched. If you don't understand why this is positive, have a liberal explain.
On a tip from Anonymous Countermoonbat.
Open Thread
Posted by Dave Blount at 11:03 AM
The War on Agriculture Continues
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 11:00 AM
For the sake of a two-inch fish called the Delta Smelt, California's Eco-hippies have turned the Central Valley… where 40% of America's food was once produced… into a dust bowl.
Not satisfied with 40% unemployment in Central Valley towns, California's Eco-hippies are now targeting the ranching industry. The hippies are upset because the "pristine" water in the places they like to backpack contains tiny amounts of cow poopy.
"At one time, cattle were important for developing civilization here," said Derlet. "But now, with 40 million people in California, the Sierra is not for cattle. It's for water. We need water more than Big Macs."
I guess it never occurred to the hippies that bears and elk also crap in their precious water.
Hat Tip: Knowledge Is Power
Angel Adams, the New Socialist Woman
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:13 AM
Left-wing ideology is based on the premise that man is perfectible. If we just impose the proper mountain of laws, utopia can be attained by reshaping human character. It's called "social engineering." Tampa's Angel Adams demonstrates how it's working out:
The din of Room 168 at the Economy Inn on East Busch Boulevard occasionally drowned out conversation.
Twelve children ranging in age from 6 months to 11 years old spent the past week there, scrambling across the floor, bouncing on beds. Their eyes filled with resignation Wednesday morning; they were hungry and dirty — wearing the same clothes as the day before and the day before that.
Angel Adams, the mom, was asking for help as the children rambled about the room. She was homeless and hopeless, she said. A relative paid for the motel room for a week, and after that, who knows. Her fiance is in prison.
With measured indignation, Adams said somebody owes her.
Adams, who has a total of 15 children by at least 3 different fathers, is indignant because somebody owes her. If you want to know what it means to be indignant, keep reading…
By the end of the day Wednesday, help had arrived.
Nick Cox, regional director of the Florida Department of Children & Families, paid Adams a visit and, standing outside the motel room with all 12 children present, offered a solution. He said there was room at A Kid's Place in Brandon, a cottage large enough to house a family of 12. Though wary of the offer, Adams agreed. …
The 37-year-old mother doesn't work. "This is my work," she said, gesturing toward the bunch. "I do this all by myself. I don't know what I'm going to do. This is a revolving door going nowhere."
That sums up the lifestyle encouraged by our welfare state nicely.
A few days later, Angel was back in the news:
A courtroom full of people who paid off Angel Yulee Adams' debts and found a rent-free, six-bedroom home for her and a dozen of her children waited Monday morning for a sign of gratitude, a clue of cooperation. They waited for a thank you.
They didn't get it. Angel Adams, 37, said she was glad to have the home. But she wanted them all out of her life.
"I've been railroaded since day one," she said.
The state says day one was 21 months and 28 hearings ago, when Adams first landed in the courtroom of Hillsborough Circuit Judge Tracy Sheehan. Ever since then, Sheehan said, the state has tried to keep Adams and her children together.
But Adams lost her home after failing to pay rent to the Tampa Housing Authority, then recently was evicted from a two-bedroom rental apartment. All her things were dumped on the curb. She and 12 children wound up in a small motel room on E Busch Boulevard.
Her situation looked a lot better on Monday, thanks to the combined efforts of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, the state Department of Children and Families, Hillsborough Kids Inc., the Children's Home Society and A Kid's Place — which last week gave her a temporary cottage at its shelter near Brandon.
Officials from most of those agencies packed the judge's courtroom Monday to give a status report. Nick Cox, DCF's regional director, spoke for them.
"Everyone has bent over backward," he said. "The mother has been less than gracious."
Hillsborough Kids volunteered to help cover the more than $6,000 she owes to the Tampa Housing Authority. The Children's Home Society paid the first month's rent for the six-bedroom house and found furnishings. Her rent, adjusted for income and the size of her family, will be virtually nothing, Cox said. He couldn't estimate how much the state has spent on her in the past two years.
But Adams is still indignant, because somebody owes her.
There you have it, the New Socialist Woman. After liberals have socially engineered the last patriots out of existence, herds of Angel Adamses will inherit America. As the generations pass, they will find it requires too much effort to stand upright, and take to dragging themselves along on all fours to cash their welfare checks as they moo indignantly that somebody owes them.
On a tip from Scaramouche.
Even Brave Achilles Cannot Save Greece Now
Posted by The MaryHunter at 9:10 AM
The worst drops in several months for the Dow, NASDAQ and stock markets worldwide came in the wake of this news: pathetic little Greece has had its debt downgraded to junk status, its credit rating tossed into the wine dark sea.
The junk rating, unusual for a developed nation, deepened fears that big fiscal deficits and debt burdens elsewhere could threaten the economic recovery in Europe. Stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic tumbled about 2 percent or more after the downgrade by Standard & Poor's.
Many sympathetic with Greece's plight will just blame the Germans, but there's no one to blame but the Greeks themselves and their progressive-socialist ways.
While the immediate fear is driven by Germany's grudging attitude toward bailing out Greece, some economists think Greece's growth prospects are so weak the government won't … collect enough taxes to be able to pay its bills years down the road. Worsening the country's plight is rising yields, which Monday neared double digits. The country's finance minister called current rates for raising funds "prohibitive."
There will be no rosy fingers of dawn to greet a Greek economic resurrection anytime soon. With the Democrats' insane deficit spending and debt-to-GDP percentages rising to historic levels, can we be too far behind? We think not, with the Obama regime and the Demonrats in charge.
Hat tip: Penelope.
Karl Rove Sides with Moonbats
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 8:39 AM
George W. Bush's record on immigration enforcement and border security was ... let me reach for a thesaurus… deplorable, dreadful, execrable, godawful, wretched. Bush's administration literally threw border patrol agents in prison for protecting the border. Mainly, these policies were because Bush was a part of the ruling elite, and as such didn't see any real difference between American citizens and illegal immigrants. Like the left, to them, all of us are people to be ruled over. Even after 9-11, Bush left the southwestern border wide open, and only when he was trying to pass amnesty did he even try to give the appearance of securing the border. And then, he and his administration tried to calculate the minimum level of border enforcement that would mollify the voters.
So, it's little surprise that the brain behind the Bush administration, Karl Rove, is joining in the left-wing hysteria over Arizona's very moderate immigration law.
"I think there is going to be some constitutional problems with the bill," Rove reportedly said at a senior community center in The Villages, Forida, where he made a stop on his book tour. "I wished they hadn't passed it, in a way."
Let us remember, it was Karl Rove who said he supported illegal immigration because it would spare his own children the indignity of hard work.
Open Borders Moonbats Boycott Arizona Ice Tea
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:25 AM
It's not easy to parody the folks who brought us Barack Hussein Obama. Moonbats are so enraged at Arizona for attempting to enforce federal immigration laws before the entire state turns into New Juarez that they are boycotting Arizona Ice Tea.
The problem: Arizona Iced Tea is actually brewed in New York.
Online, misguided tea fans vowed to switch to Lipton or Snapple.
"Dear Arizona: If you don't change your immigration policy, I will have to stop drinking your enjoyable brand of iced tea," Twittered Jody Beth in Los Angeles.
"It is the drink of fascists," wrote Travis Nichols in Chicago. …
Founded in Brooklyn in 1992, the firm was based in Queens before moving into a new $35 million headquarters in Nassau County last year.
Look out, JCPenney. The progressive brain trust is liable to go after Arizona jeans next.
At least now that liberals are boycotting their product, Arizona Ice Tea won't have to print OPEN OTHER END on the bottom of the can.
On tips from Lunaticcringeradio, Sean, and Bill.
SCOTUS Smacks Down ACLU, Says the Mojave Cross Can Stay
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 8:21 AM
The Supreme Court has decided that the Mojave Cross War Memorial gets to stay. The ACLU's Taliban-like attempt to eliminate all expression of Christian Faith from public view and make atheism the official state religion is dealt a setback.
Bummer ACLU, but don't worry, you can go back to defending NAMBLA, those child-predators have deep pockets.
That the court's four activist lefties sided with eradicating religion shows just how perilously close to losing our freedoms we all are.
The Progressive Left Position on Illegal Immigration as I Understand It
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 7:19 AM
Based on the Progressive Left's hysterical and histrionic response to Arizona's new immigration law... which only repeats Federal law at the state level and allows the police to check the immigration status of people they have reasonable cause to suspect may be in the country illegally... it is clear the real position of the Progressive Left and the Democrat Party on illegal immigration is as follows:
Once an illegal alien makes it across our border, no one is ever allowed to question his immigration status.
Tell me where I'm wrong on this.
Bernanke: "Now He Tells Us" about ObamaCare
Posted by The MaryHunter at 7:10 AM
As screamed in the headline at the top of The Daily Caller home page, old news to conservatives and Republicans is now coming out on the profound defects of ObamaCare. The latest:
As Washington fixated Tuesday on expletive-laced excoriations of Goldman Sachs executives, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was across town delivering some grim warnings about America's fiscal future to President Obama's fiscal commission.
But Bernanke also voiced a surprisingly pessimistic view of Obama's recently passed health plan, questioning whether the nearly $1 trillion piece of legislation will do much of anything to reduce overall health care spending.
"At this point, the effects of the recent legislation on federal health-care spending over the long term are uncertain, in part because they depend importantly on implementation," Bernanke said.
Bernanke's oblique reference to implementation would likely cover roughly $500 billion in cuts to Medicare that must be authorized by future Congresses as well as the identification of ways to deliver care that are more efficient and reduce costs. The health bill authorizes trial runs of numerous such experiments.
That's just great: 20% of our nation's economy plus the very health and well-being of the public -- especially the young and the old, our most vulnerable -- will be the subjects of numerous experiments. Makes you just bubble with faith about ObamaCare, doesn't it?
The EPA, Amerika's BFF
Posted by The MaryHunter at 5:30 AM
For it's heartfelt acts of compassion toward mankind and the planet, let's make today Hug Your Local EPA Official Day.
Because they're just looking out for us, is all.
Hat tip: iOwnTheWorld.
Item #3: L to the Forehead
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:50 AM
But the real losers are Cowardly Central, for wetting their pants and quaking in fear because an unemployed jerk living in his mom's basement posted a threat on the Internet.
Item #2: But It Can't Happen Here
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:44 AM
Greece's Debt Rating has been lowered to junk bond status. Some say Greece is a forewarning of a coming debt crisis that will swamp other countries. But here in America, we don't need to worry. Ace explains why…
Greece was plagued by irresponsible spending and politicians who lied about the country's massive liabilities and a high tax rate that discouraged growth. … Greece is nothing at all like Obama's America.
See, we're fine.
Morning Briefs For Wednesday Item #1: Once a Kennedy, Always a Kennedy
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:07 AM
Good Morning Right Wing Patriots, Good Morning Left Wing Hollaback Girls,
Last Tuesday, Representative Patrick Kennedy spoke at a charity event about substance abuse, then went to a bar and tossed back a few vodka shots, where he apparently got drunk enough to declare B. Hussein Obama "the best president ever."
Not kidding.
April 27, 2010
Maggie Thatcher Pulls the Wings Off Moonbats
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:09 PM
How is it possible that socialism could inflict such ghastly damage on England, even after the great countermoonbat Margaret Thatcher so eloquently exposed it for what it is?
You can't have both freedom and equal outcomes. But what sort of lowlife would want the deserving and the undeserving to share equal outcomes? All honorable people whose freedom has not been denied will be content with the fate they earn for themselves. To begrudge others what they've earned is to wallow contemptibly in envy. Yet the garbage ideology of liberalism, by appealing to all that is most base in us, is managing to destroy our civilization.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Law Makes It Illegal to Break the Law
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:49 PM
MSNBC's human resources department must have set the maximum allowable IQ somewhere in the mid 60s.
Compliments of Joe Dan. On a tip from Nancy.
Sheriff Joe Versus the World's Worst Race Pimp
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:39 PM
The great countermoonbat Joe Arpaio mops the floor with the despicable race-baiter Al Sharpton over illegal immigration, appropriately moderated by a guy who looks like an alien.
Liberals are actually arguing that Mexicans should be able to invade our country at will because it would be "racial profiling" to expect non-Caucasians to obey the law. The absurdity of grown adults pretending that it's "racist" to suspect Mexicans of being Mexican twists the brain like an Escher print. Liberalism has passed beyond self-parody into a bizarre travesty of thought that can only be called psychosis.
On a tip from Incitatus.
Open Thread
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:20 PM
Law 101: It's Called Illegal Immigration for a Reason
Posted by The MaryHunter at 7:08 PM
Moonbattery U. turns to the gnomish Greg Gutfeld for some sensible commentary on that whole Arizona immigration law thing.
Conservatives don't hate immigrants -- both Grandpas and one Grandma MaryHunter were legal immigrants -- but conservatives dislike illegal immigrants inside our borders, freeloaders who are simply breaking the law. It's that simple -- unlike the utter disbelief that some at MSNBC have at the notion that it's a crime to be an illegal immigrant.
The Emperor Has Supporters
Posted by The MaryHunter at 5:52 PM
Let's hear it for President Obama. He knows how to speak to middle America, in Ohio, in a town hall, with real Americans, who are all hand-picked Obots. Don't miss the seal-clapping "Obama Community Organizer" right behind Dear Leader.
Hat tip: Gateway Pundit.
Meanwhile on Financial Regulation, the Party of "No" Offers...
Posted by The MaryHunter at 5:28 PM
...actual solutions for financial regulation in the form of a 20-page outline aiming to address the root causes of the 2008 financial meltdown: subprime mortgages, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The GOP plan would also place limits on government intrusion into financial markets and the lives of Americans.
The 20-page outline would prohibit the use of taxpayer funds to bail out failing financial giants of the future and impose federal regulation on many but not all trades of complex investments known as derivatives. It also calls for consumer protections that appear weaker than Democrats and the White House seek, and it would create new regulations on mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The outline surfaced shortly before Senate Republicans united for the second straight day to block action on White House-backed legislation designed to prevent any recurrence of the ills that led to the economic calamity of 2008. The 57-41 vote left the measure three shy of the 60 needed to advance.
The likelihood of Republican legislation ever reaching the floor of either the Senate or the House this Congress is basically zero, so we'll have to wait until January 2011 for any sensible, pro-American bills to come up for a vote. Hopefully America can survive the wait.
Public Education
Posted by Dave Blount at 5:04 PM
This sums it up nicely:
Compliments of Michelle.
Geithner's Got Nothing on This Fox in the Hen House
Posted by The MaryHunter at 4:50 PM
No one should be surprised to learn that a top Treasury Department official, who is deeply involved in writing the Democrat-favored financial regulation overhaul bill, was complicit in the subprime mortgage crisis that fueled our whole financial meltdown in the first place.
Conservative media outlets are looking at Eric Stein's work as a senior vice president for the Center for Responsible Lending [CRL].
The organization helped get loans to people with less-than-perfect credit. It was also partially funded by billionaire John Paulson, who is currently answering questions regarding what involvement he had in the Goldman Sachs dealings.
Mr. Stein appears to be slated to head an Obama regime "consumer financial protection agency." Under his leadership, such an agency would offer just about as much protection to Americans as a wool condom.
Stein promoted policies that, in his words, encourages other lenders to make sustainable loans to borrowers with blemished credit." In other words, they would buy loans from banks to make such loans. Then the loan would be kicked up to Fannie Mae. Paulson got rich. Taxpayers got bilked.
Rather than being promoted to protect consumers, [Stein] needs to explain his role in creating and sustaining the crisis.
As, of course, do Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and any number of other congressional Democrat enablers of this financial mess.
Stupid Quote of the Day
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 3:58 PM
Yes, even stupider than Contessa Brewer's "Being an illegal immigrant is now a crime" quote.
From Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund:
"If every state had its own laws, we wouldn't be one country; we'd be 50 different countries."
Ahem:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Only a progressive legal outfit would make someone that ignorant of the Constitution its President and General Counsel.
Hat Tip: Sondra K.
Jeff Sessions Warns of Next Justice Pushing Obama's Hard Left Agenda
Posted by Dave Blount at 3:04 PM
Remember when Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor publicly snickered at the idea of judges having the integrity not to legislate from the bench? It might be what got her the nomination. From the liberal point of view, judges aren't there to uphold justice, any more than teachers are on the job to teach, or journalists to inform. The sole objective is to shove the progressive agenda down our throats, as we will no doubt be reminded with Comrade Obama's replacement for retiring moonbat John Paul Stevens.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said in an interview that Republicans are planning a sharp focus on the president's approach to governance — regardless of who the president nominates — to ensure that the newest member of the high court won't be a "rubber-stamp" for the Obama agenda.
"It's pretty clear to me that President Obama sees judges as allies in an effort to promote an agenda he thinks is best for the country," Sessions said. "And a lot of people see it that way — he's just part of that movement.
"And that's not law. That's not law — that's politics. And it's a poison in our legal system, and the American people are not happy about it. They see it for what it is, and they don't think that courts ought to be there to rubber-stamp President Obama's or anybody's agenda. …
"What I'm hearing from my constituents is a cry that Washington is losing all recognition that it is a government of limited, delegated powers, and that it is assuming roles that go far beyond anything the governed ever thought that they would be doing," Sessions said.
The question is, what can anybody do about it prior to November? The answer: Senate Republicans must not roll over, as they did with Sotomayor, no matter how stylish the ethnic pedigree of the nominee. Dig in and make an issue of it, so that the public can't help but be aware of just how radically hostile to this country's founding principles its current rulers truly are.
On a tip from J.
Mexico Warns Its Citizens About Bad Old Arizona
Posted by Dave Blount at 1:03 PM
After going out of its way to promote illegal immigration, Mexico has thoughtfully warned its citizens to steer clear of Arizona in light of the new effort to enforce immigration law:
Mexico's government is warning its citizens about travel to Arizona because of a tough new immigration law there.
The travel alert from the Foreign Relations Department … says that the law's passage shows "an adverse political atmosphere for migrant communities and for all Mexican visitors."
It says that once the law takes effect, foreigners can be detained if they fail to carry immigration documents. While enforcement details are not yet clear, the alert says "it should be assumed that any Mexican citizen could be bothered and questioned for no other reason at any moment."
Mexico, on the other hand, doesn't require foreign visitors to carry any documentation. Everybody's welcome, no questions asked. Kidding, of course — Mexican immigration law is quite sensibly much more rigid than ours. In Mexico, it's a felony to be an illegal alien, as it should be here.
On a tip from Byron.
Moonbat Ninjas Attack Australian Energy Production
Posted by Dave Blount at 12:13 PM
Wouldn't it be nice to have this much free time on your hands?
Fifteen Greenpeace protesters have been sentenced over their involvement in demonstrations at two Queensland coal ports last year.
Greenpeace activists anchored their ship, Esperanza, offshore and disrupted operations at the Abbot Point terminal near Bowen, north of Mackay, and the Hay Point terminal, south of Mackay, last August.
Four protesters chained themselves to a coal loader at Hay Point for more than 30 hours.
Greenpeace ringleader Linda Selvey shrieks that her army of punks and saboteurs "will continue to take action" unless Australia agrees to shut everything down and wait in the darkness for starvation to put them out of the polar bears' misery.
Alarmingly, maniacs like this have allies in very high places.
On a tip from Johnnosk.
Newsweek Had it Wrong; We're All National Socialists Now
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 10:56 AM
MSDNC's House Eunuch Joe Scarborough has added his castrato falsetto to the chorus of lefty voices denouncing Arizona's mild new immigration law -- specifically, its requirements that immigrants keep identity papers on them at all times --- as being like something out of Nazi Germany.
Here is video from Morning Joe today, where Joe Scarborough actually likened the new Arizona Anti-Illegal Immigration Law to Nazi "Guards" demanding, "show me your papers."
Does Scarborough remind anyone else of an older, chunkier version of Matthew Perry? Anyway, if requiring non-citizens to carry identity papers makes a state into Nazi Germany, then the USA has been under fascism for quite a while; because that precise requirement exists under Federal Law.
Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d) of this section. Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.
Time to polish your jackboots. BTW, both MSDNC and the CBS presented readers with the insight that the law "Makes It a Crime To Be an Illegal Immigrant." So... breaking the law isn't a crime until the law is enforced? This is how the left thinks?
(Hat Tip: Ace)
By the way, 60% of Americans support Arizona-style state enforcement of immigration laws.
San Francisco Declares War on Arizona
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:41 AM
Turning their own city into a stinking cesspool bubbling over with moonbat depravity isn't enough for the liberal weenies running San Franfreakshow into the ground. They have decided they should have jurisdiction over Arizona too:
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera on Monday called for a sweeping boycott of the state of Arizona and Arizona-based businesses.
Herrera, himself the son an immigrant from Latin America, called the law "draconian" and released the following statement upon announcing the push for a boycott:
Just as it did two decades ago when it refused to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Arizona has again chosen to isolate itself from the rest of the nation. Our most appropriate response is to assure that their isolation is tangible rather than merely symbolic. San Francisco should lead the way in adopting and aggressively pursuing a sweeping boycott of Arizona and Arizona-based businesses until this unjust law is repealed or invalidated. My office is fully committed to work with San Francisco city departments and commissions to identify all applicable contracts, and to pursue termination wherever possible. And my office stands ready to assist in any legal challenges in whatever way it can [using taxpayer money].
By the way, we also refuse to move our clocks around for Daylight Savings. I love this place.
Hysterical liberal race-baiting aside, the law isn't the least "draconian." It simply allows the state to pick up the ball that was deliberately dropped by the quislings in Washington, who intend to demographically deform our country in their favor by importing tens of millions of Third World peasants, the vast majority of whom will be net recipients of Big Government largesse and will therefore reliably vote for Democrats.
But liberals, with their great love of centralized autocracy, can't be blamed for not liking our new law. If the feds won't fulfill government's most basic obligation by defending us from foreign invasion, but the states will, what do we need Washington for? Why are we allowing the useless, parasitical vermin in the District of Criminals to consume half of our wealth when they do next to nothing for us in return? Isn't the federal government pretty much the same thing as one of those facehuggers in Alien, with illegal aliens being the eggs it is planting inside us to eat us alive from within? Nothing that gets people asking these questions is going to be much help to the progressive agenda.
On tips from Incitatus and Travis.
Update:
For a dose of countermoonbattery, check out the comments on the local NBC article cited above. Virtually every one sides with Arizona against illegal Reconquistadors and the governmedia quislings who support them.
So That's How the "Green Economy" Works
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:48 AM
Among the most fundamental laws of the universe is that the more government you have, the more corruption you will have. When human interaction is based on coercion instead of voluntary contracts, the only way to get anything done is to grease the palms of scuttling bureaucratic overlords, who pursue their positions because it's the most effective means to acquire wealth. That's why the first word of this Pajamas Media report must be a typo:
Surprising documents made available to this author reveal that Assistant Secretary of Energy Cathy Zoi has a huge financial stake in companies likely to profit from the Obama administration's "green" policies.
Zoi, who left her position as CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection — founded by Al Gore — to serve as assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy, now manages billions in "green jobs" funding. But the disclosure documents show that Zoi not only is in a position to affect the fortunes of her previous employer, ex-Vice President Al Gore, but that she herself has large holdings in two firms that could directly profit from policies proposed by the Department of Energy.
Among Zoi's holdings are shares in Serious Materials, Inc., the previously sleepy, now bustling, friend of the Obama White House whose public policy operation is headed by her husband. Between them, Zoi and her husband hold 120,000 shares in Serious Materials, as well as stock options. Reporter John Stossel has already explored what he sees as the "crony capitalism" implied by Zoi being so able to influence the fortunes of a company to which she is so closely associated.
In addition, the disclosure forms reflect that Zoi holds between $250,000 and $500,000 in "founders shares" in Landis+Gyr, a Swiss "smart meter" firm. She also still owns between $15,000 and $50,000 in ordinary shares.
"Smart meters," put simply, are electric meters that return information about customer power usage to the power company immediately and allow a power company to control the amount of power a customer can consume. These smart meters are a central component of the Obama administration's plans to reduce electricity consumption as part of the "smart grid."
That is, one summer soon bureaucrats will be remotely turning down your AC on behalf of the polar bears. Stalin and Hitler never dreamed of this level of micromanagement. Since not even the boobs running the government believe in global warming anymore, the actual point, other than to increase control over us as an end in itself, is to enrich autocrats like Zoi.
On a tip from Oiao.
One Third of San Francisco Employees Make Six Figures
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:18 AM
As our liberal rulers spend us $trillions upon $trillions into debt, eradicating any hope that the next generation will live as well, you have to wonder — where does all the money go? San Franfreakshow offers a clue:
More than 1 in 3 of San Francisco's nearly 27,000 city workers earned $100,000 or more last year — a number that has been growing steadily for the past decade.
The number of city workers paid at least $100,000 in base salary totaled 6,449 last year. When such extras as overtime are included, the number jumped to 9,487 workers, nearly eight times the number from a decade ago. And that calculation doesn't include the cost of often-generous city benefits such as health care and pensions.
The exorbitant pay is due to "generous contracts in a city known for its politically potent unions" and the fact that the socialists writing the checks aren't spending their own money.
Fortunately it doesn't matter that public sector employees aren't famous for working very hard, because many of their jobs are extraneous anyway. How many real jobs does it take to support the Louis XVI lifestyle of one useless bureaucrat? We'll find out as liberal policies continue to cause real jobs to dry up, eroding the tax base so that bureauweenies are reduced to paying themselves their stratospheric salaries with increasingly worthless money.
On a tip from J.
Recession Will Soon Hit Home for Dems
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:48 AM
There is some justice in the world. The economic slump is going to be putting a few more people out of work in November — namely the Democrats who caused it by forcing banks to make race-based loans and resisting Republican attempts to rein in Fanny & Freddy until the entire housing market had collapsed.
Notch one more victim of the recession: With crucial midterm elections nearing, Democrats have lost the advantage they've held for years as the party the public trusts to steer the economy.
The timing could be fortunate for the Republicans. With jobs and the economy dominating voters' concerns, the GOP will wield the issue as a cudgel in the battle to grab control of at least one chamber of Congress this November and weaken President Barack Obama.
"The number one question on voters' minds is, 'Where are the jobs?'" said Ken Spain, spokesman for the House Republican campaign organization. "Republican candidates on the campaign trail will ask one very simple question: 'Are you better off today that you were two years ago?'"
A similar question worked well for Reagan after the Jimmy Carter debacle.
Pollsters, analysts and politicians across party lines agree the Democrats have lost their grip on the issue [of the economy] chiefly due to unemployment rates that have stuck near 10 percent since last summer, an ongoing foreclosure crisis and the recession that began in December 2007 [not long after the Dems took over Congress]…
While the November elections are a long way off, most economists believe unemployment will still be high by Election Day, and improvements in the economy are likely to be modest.
Aware that the party in power is commonly punished for a weak economy, Democrats hope to persuade voters to view the elections as a choice between their party's recovery efforts and what they call the GOP's preferences to reward corporations and wealthy taxpayers.
Corrosive class warfare rhetoric and attacking the golden goose that creates the jobs worked in the past too. But having been through one Great Depression, we're wiser than we were in FDR's time — and thanks to the Internet, better informed.
The Democrats also may have hurt their image as effective custodians of the economy by spending more than a year pushing Obama's near $1 trillion health care overhaul through Congress. It was enacted last month to mixed public reviews and after many people — including Democrats — complained that stronger congressional efforts on jobs were overdue.
To translate out of the APese, ObamaCare was rammed down our throats despite the obvious deleterious effect it would have on the already weak economy, and the public is enraged.
Look for the media to begin painting rosy scenarios of the booming recovery just around the corner. But having flushed away the last of its credibility on the global warming hoax and getting Comrade Obama in office, the MSM is going to have a hard time convincing us we have jobs when we don't.
…nearly two-thirds in [an Associated Press-GfK] poll say they know a non-relative who has recently lost a job. This group, whose size has remained steady for more than a year, is likelier to back Republicans.
Not to worry, Dems. With your skill set and reputation for integrity, you're sure to find work as used car salesmen.
On a tip from Conan.
So Earthquakes Are Caused by Sluts After All
Posted by The MaryHunter at 8:20 AM
We at Moonbattery fervently apologize for our previous report, mocking the notion espoused by senior Iranian clerics that loose women are the root cause of earthquakes. New data has just come in that show definitive proof of a causal relationship between sluttiness and earth tremors. You see, Monday was Boobquake Day, and sure enough, it was accompanied by a 6.5-magnitude earthquake in Taiwan (which is clearly the boob capital of the planet).
Those who scorned the Holiest of Holy Imam's pronouncements blaming immodesty for the earth's shudders will be unceremoniously neutered, then beheaded.
Hat tip: The Daily Caller.
OK, OK. So go earthquake, already.
Open Thread
Posted by Dave Blount at 7:35 AM
Item #3: About That GM Bailout Repayment Thingy
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:54 AM
The progressive left/the Democrat PR wing/the Obama Amen corner have been cheering GM's "repayment" of its bailout loan as proof that socialism works, that President Wonderful is an economic super-genius, and that us right-wing conservatives who questioned the wisdom of the Government's action are racists.
As usual with leftist hype, there are multiple problems with that "analysis."
1. GM received almost $50 billion in bailout loans and is "repaying" less than $7 billion.
2. GM is "repaying" its Government taxpayer "loans" by raiding another bailout fund provided by taxpayers.
3. GM is also asking for another $10 billion in Government loans.
4. The Treasury Department rates the chances of GM repaying its bailout in full as somewhere between slim and none.
Meanwhile, Ford, the one American auto company that wasn't bailed out by the Government, reported a $2 billion profit for the quarter, its sales are up 37%, and its market share is increasing.
Item #2: Again With the Nazi Slur...
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:45 AM
"It is absolutely reminiscent of second class status of Jews in Germany prior to World War II when they had to have their papers with them at all times and were subject to routine inspections at the suspicion of being Jewish," Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo), who is Jewish, told POLITICO.
Whatever.
Incidentally, some of the people who don't like the idea of enforcing our country's immigration laws protested by smearing windows at the Capitol with beans in swastika patterns.
So, if people who protest taxes by throwing tea bags can be called "tea-baggers," can people who protest immigration laws by smearing beans be called "beaners," or would that be racist?
Morning Briefs for Tuesday Item #1: $68 Million to Build a Monument to Ted Kennedy
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:10 AM
Good Morning Right-Wing Patriots, Good Morning Left Wing Ash Holes,
Among the other Pork Items being pushed by spendthrift Obamacrats is $68 Million to build a monument to a Dead Kennedy, and I don't mean Jello Biafra. (Although I am sure that's in the pipeline.)
Fittingly enough, the Kennedy Cult is raiding the Defense Budget to build a model to their favorite rapist and manslaughterer.
Supporters want to siphon $28.9 million of the funding from the Defense Department budget alone. Nearly $19 million of that is already signed into law.
I wonder what the Memorial will look like. Maybe they can get Jose "Piss Christ" Serrano to immerse an Oldsmobile in a tank of urine. It would be appropriate on many levels.
Snodfart Education Experts Create One of California's Worst Schools
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 3:12 AM
The elite educrats of Stanford University created a charter school in a disadvantaged area of Palo Alto, California. They used the school as a laboratory for all the trendy educational concepts designed by leading experts.
Stanford New Schools hires well-trained teachers who use state-of-the-art progressive teaching methods; Stanford's student teachers provide extra help. With an extra $3,000 per student raised privately, students enjoy small classes, mentoring, counseling and tutoring, technology access, field trips, summer enrichment, health van visits, community college classes on campus, and community service opportunities. The goal is to send graduates to college as critical thinkers, lifelong learners, and "global citizens."
How well did this Progressive Utopian School District do? About as well as all progressive utopia experiments. It was incredibly expensive, and it finished in the bottom 5% of California schools. (And when you consider California schools as a whole tend to rest at the bottom of all US states in achievement, that's kind of like… wow.)
But, of course, it's not the educrats fault the school failed. It's never the elites fault when their utopias fail. It's those stupid disadvantaged students who didn't appreciate everything the elites were doing to for them.
Ms. Darling-Hammond — who told the board that the school "takes all kids" and changes their "trajectory" — was angered by the state's categorization of the charter as a persistently worst-performing school. "It is not the most accurate measure of student achievement," she said, "particularly if you have new English language learners."
Never mind that other Charter Schools drawing from the same student pool — but which focused on academics and not on the whole personhood of the students — performed much better.
Hat Tip: Scott
April 26, 2010
Tidings of Joy From the Party of Tolerance
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:10 PM
It looks like Z-list actor D.C. Douglas isn't the only moonbat to master the art of the nasty voice mail message. After the one he left at FreedomWorks cost him his GEICO voice gig, some likeminded progressives decided to follow him off the cliff. Warning — liberal language ahead; don a hazmat suit before proceeding. The following voicemails and emails were spat at FreedomWorks and collected by Tabitha Hale:
Too bad for the liberal establishment media that patriots don't talk like this. They might be able to portray the Tea Party movement as vicious without wasting the last tattered scraps of their credibility.
Via Right Wing News, on a tip from Oiao.
See, I Told You So
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 6:25 PM
Last week, when there was Global Hysteria about the eruption of Iceland's Evil-loogie volcano, I said that the shut down of European airspace was an over-reaction based on faulty computer models (like global warming hysteria). Several people said I was wrong, and I should have deferred to authorities because the threat of ash damage was so serious.
Well, turns out I called that one right and the authorities were wrong.
Britain's airspace was closed under false pretences, with satellite images revealing there was no doomsday volcanic ash cloud over the entire country.
New evidence shows there was no all-encompassing cloud and, where dust was present, it was often so thin that it posed no risk.
The satellite images demonstrate that the skies were largely clear, which will not surprise the millions who enjoyed the fine, hot weather during the flight ban.
Evidence has emerged that the maximum density of the ash was only about one 20th of the limit that scientists, the Government, and aircraft and engine manufacturers have now decided is safe.
Granted, when an aircraft flies through an ash cloud very close to a volcano, it's a different story, but over thousands of cubic kilometers of atmosphere, a cloud becomes pretty dispersed.
Geithner Admits He Never Had a Real Job
Posted by Dave Blount at 4:39 PM
Tim Geithner — the tax cheat who heads the Treasury Department — offers a clue as to why he's so clueless:
He's hardly the only one in the Obamination Administration severely lacking in real world experience:
Apparently flushing $trillions down the toilet while doing everything possible to terrify businesses and investors is only absurd in the real world; from the academic/bureaucratic perspective, it's sound economic policy.
On tips from DaddyOD and Incitatus.
Joe Sestak Admits Obama Administration Offered Him Bribe
Posted by Dave Blount at 2:09 PM
Yet all the fault lies with "right-wing Republicans like … Arlen Specter"! Seeing is believing:
Benedict Arlen is not even a Republican anymore, much less right wing. But Dems may come to regret inviting them into their roach nest, as he has scraped up enough integrity to show some curiosity about the flagrant violation of federal election law the Obamination Administration committed by offering Sestak a bribe to stay out of the Pennsylvania Senate race.
On a tip from TrickleUpPolitics.
Eco-Warrior Moby Buys a Giant Mansion
Posted by Dave Blount at 12:47 PM
Only the repellent vegan weenie who calls himself Moby could take the James Bond theme music and turn it into nauseating Muzak — and only Moby could challenge even U2 in the realm of pop czar ecohypocrisy.
Moby, as DJ and singer-songwriter Richard Melville Hall is known, has purchased Wolf's Lair, a Hollywood Hills castle-like fortress with views of the Hollywood sign, downtown and the ocean, for $3,925,000. …
The main house, John Lautner-designed guesthouse and pool house apartment have a total of eight bedrooms and 5 1/2 bathrooms in about 6,500 square feet of living space. Moby's new kitchen has all the requisite appliances. …
The structures sit on 3.3 acres above Lake Hollywood. The black-bottom swimming pool is shaped like a heart, and the pool terrace has a pergola-covered seating area.
Nice digs, for a guy so earth-friendly that he has complained about washing underwear because it allegedly despoils the environment. Let's hope his power bills aren't as high as Al Gore's.
No doubt Moby plans to compensate for his large lifestyle by continuing to lecture us about overconsumption.
On tips from Edward.
Date Night Pig-Out
Posted by Dave Blount at 11:55 AM
B. Hussein and the Bitter Half have hit us taxpayers with another date night. This time, instead of closing down Manhattan so they could see a play, they traveled to moonbat-friendly Asheville, NC for dinner. Now we know how Michelle got that caboose:
The meal included BBQ ribs, greens, baked beans, corn pudding, mac & cheese and corn bread, guzzled back with icy cold sweet teas.
This is relevant because the Bride of Obama has been on a jihad against tasty food, lecturing loudly that obesity is a "threat to national security." Who knows what restrictions will be imposed on our diets as Big Government consolidates control of our health under ObamaCare? Already we have Democrat pols calling for laws against salt.
But our rulers will continue to eat as they please.
On a tip from Scott. Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ.
Profiles in Countermoonbattery: Janine Turner
Posted by The MaryHunter at 11:22 AM
Not only are conservative and Republican women just doggone way hot, they love to speak up for our nation and our Constitution. Janine Turner, case in point, has a mission: to "Constitute America" -- educate all Americans about the importance of this timeless document that formed the foundation of the most successful country and economy in the world. Among her pro-Constitution activities, she is sponsoring the "We the People 9*17" contest for children and high-school kids, aimed at spreading knowledge and understanding of our founding documents.
From Kathyn Jean Lopez at NRO:
To hear Janine Turner talk about her contest is to hear someone in love with her country, challenging herself to truly know what that means and be an active contributor to its preservation. Janine Turner represents the best of this tea-party mood in the air. Her civic passion is the same kind of magnet that attracts people to the tea parties, to the likes of Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin. She may be an actress, but there's something very familiar about Janine Turner (who you might remember as Maggie O'Connell): Just another American, who might be new to the intensive study of history, but wants to share what she's learning -- and make it creative and entertaining -- along the way. It's certainly not a bad thing.
Ms. Turner deserves much credit as a stand-up Hollywood celebrity who does not let the prevailing leftward wind of Tinsel Town sway her from her patriotic, America-loving altruism.
Divide and Conquer
Posted by Dave Blount at 11:04 AM
Sorry white men — given our victim politics spoils system, BHO can't represent everyone. In the midst of this phony demagoguery, Comrade Obama promises to "reconnect … young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women" in an alliance against everyone else to keep the corrosion known as Hope & Change eating away at whatever's left of our country after 2010:
Via Ben Smith and Gateway Pundit, on tips from Incitatus and firewifem.
Archie Comics Succumb to Moonbattery
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:22 AM
There aren't many corners of our culture that haven't yet been corrupted by moonbattery. Now even Archie comics — which have been around since the Depression — promote normalizing homosexual depravity.
In a move that is generating a lot of buzz on the Web, the publishers of Archie Comics recently announced that they are bringing in an openly gay character, Kevin Keller, starting with the September issue.
What's the plot? According to CNN, new-guy Kevin beats Jughead in a burger-eating contest. For whatever reason, this act of intestinal fortitude impresses the raven-haired Veronica. She begins to pursue Kevin, who, for obvious reasons, isn't interested. Kevin must find ways to deflect her affection without being mean, but Veronica, used to winning, doesn't give up easily. Hilarity ensues, until Kevin finally confides in Jughead that he is gay. … And don't look for Kevin to show up for just a few issues and then never be heard from again. The New York Times reports that Kevin is more than a one-off character. There are future stories already mapped out.
Good thing Leave It to Beaver went off the air. By now the show would be advancing "inclusiveness" by having Ward Cleaver molest the paper boy while dressed in women's clothes.
On a tip from Muddypaw.
Raped by White Guilt
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:18 AM
By now anyone who doesn't live in a cave is aware at some level that the President of the United States is a guy whose long-time friend, associate, and political mentor waged a terror war against the USA. But somehow the full import of this fact doesn't seem to have sunk in. Maybe bombing Americans is acceptable now; after all, Muslims do it, and it would be racist to criticize the Religion of Peace. But even aside from his terrorist activities, Bill Ayers offers alarming insight into the milieu that produced our current leadership. Donna Ron reminisces on the "defining event" of her life. She was in college, visiting Ayers in his attic apartment…
…when I was getting ready to leave Ayers told me I couldn't go until I slept with his roommate and his brother. At this point Bill and I had slept together just once. I was sexually inexperienced, having had only one serious boyfriend with whom I had recently broken up.
At first I thought Ayers was joking. I got up; and went to the door. He moved quickly to block me at the doorway. He locked the door and put the chain on it. I went to the couch and sat down and told him that I had no intention of having sex with his roommate and his brother or him. He said that I had no choice but to do as he said if I wanted to get out of there. He claimed that I wouldn't sleep with his married roommate because he was black — that I was a bigot.
Then as now, bullies could get the gullible to do pretty much anything by brandishing the "racism" charge. Donna submitted to rape.
I felt trapped. I had to get out of the situation I was in and because he was so effective a guilt-tripper, I also felt I had to prove to him that I wasn't a bigot. I got up from the couch and walked over to the black roommate's bed and put myself on it and he f*cked me. I went totally out of my body. I floated beside myself on the outside and above the bed looking at this black stranger f*ck me angrily while I hated myself.
There you have it: politically correct race relations in a nutshell.
This is also the world that produced Barack Hussein Obama in a nutshell. Like Ayers, his childhood mentor Frank Marshall Davis was also a communist and a sexual deviant; Davis has bragged in print about raping a 13-year-old girl.
Although the media has done all it could to obscure Obama's background, anyone even mildly curious could have found out well in advance that he is the product of a cultural sewer. Yet they submitted, just like Donna Ron, and for the same sick reasons.
On tips from Edward.
Open Thread
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:10 AM
I Don't Want to Come Across as Racist, But…
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 7:53 AM
…I note that one La Raza protest in Arizona produced more arrests and violence in a single day than all the thousands of Tea Parties have in the last year.
Witnesses say a group protesting against SB1070 (Arizona's harsh new immigration law) began to fight with a man who was for the controversial immigration bill. Police tried escorting that man away from the scene, fearing for his safety, when they too came under attack by people throwing items, including water bottles.
Also, that name, "La Raza," it means "The Race." And their Mission Statement is "For the Race Everything, Outside the Race Nothing." To me, that sounds a whole lot more Ku Klux Klannish than "Taxed Enough Already." But then again, I'm not a member of the Obama Amen Corner or the Mainstream media; but I repeat myself.
Oh, and America's Premier Race Hustler, Al Sharpton, is on his way to Arizona to see if he can make a buck off the proceedings. Well, every rodeo needs a clown.
Bisexual Candidate Not Bisexual Enough for Public Office
Posted by The MaryHunter at 7:10 AM
In a world infested with moonbattery, we easily can segue from not being gay enough for employment to a Democrat candidate who doesn't bat enough from the wrong side of the plate to be elected.
Just how bisexual is Gregg Kravitz? His political career may pivot on the answer. Kravitz is a 29-year-old former stockbroker from Philadelphia, who is running for the Pennsylvania statehouse. He claims to be a bisexual.
His opponent in the Democratic primary, incumbent Babette Josephs, says Kravitz is lying about who he sleeps with in order to curry favor with gay voters. Josephs claims she met a woman at a fundraiser who identified herself as Kravitz's girlfriend. "I outed him as a straight person," Josephs announced.
If Democrat candidates continue to compete among themselves for the queerest attributes as qualifications for elected office, 2010 is going to look better and better for conservatives.
Liberal NY Writer Hates Sarah Palin and Fox News
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 5:18 AM
And in related news, old man resents kids on his lawn
At New York Magazine, Gabriel Sherman churns out a long, brown, curly piece of journalism cataloging the millions Sarah Palin has made and laments the corporate machine that has enabled her to do so.
Nowadays, for both poles of the political spectrum but especially for the right, politics is a business — the entertainment business. The freak show, as Mark Halperin termed it, has been turned into a fully merchandised product. It was Fox's Roger Ailes who had the insight that the American right was an underserved market, one with a powerful kind of brand loyalty. Fox News has turned a disaffected segment of the populace into a market, with the fervor and idiosyncratic truth standards of a cult. Wingnut-ism has been monetized, is one admittedly partisan way of looking at it. Palin stokes the disaffection of her constituents and then, with the help of Fox, offers to heal them, for a price. And — surprise — they're more affluent than most Americans. Fifty-six percent make over $50,000 a year, according to a Times/CBS poll. Running for president is no doubt part of her business model. But forget elections (as many Palin supporters already seem to have done); she's already the president of an alternative America — and also its CEO.
Yes, it truly sucks that instead of going broke fending off nuisance "ethics" complaints about her wearing an Arctic Cat parka at a snowmobile race or allegedly trying to fire a state trooper who smacked his wife around and tasered an eleven-year-old kid … (Oh, and did we mention, her daughter's a slut?) … Sarah Palin had the gall to actually go out and become a successful author and speaker.
Now, which is more likely:
1. A liberal writer is genuinely concerned that the American body politic is being undermined by the crass commercialization of the right-wing point-of-view.
2. A liberal writer is insanely jealous that the only profitable media is on the right, and that Sarah Palin — who didn't even go to an Ivy League school — made twelve million dollars last year.
Which do you think it is?
Item #3: The Ever Classy Progressive Left Hopes Sarah Palin Chokes
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 5:17 AM
Good thing it's a "hate-free zone," otherwise I guess they'd be hoping she and her daughters were ripped apart by wild dogs and then sasquatch peed on their remains. Or is wishing violence on someone not hateful when that someone is Sarah Palin?
One more thing about that picture of anti-Palin protesters, where are the black faces?
Item #2: Thomas Friedman Needs Some Tissues
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:58 AM
RINO Lindsey Graham has withdrawn his support for the Senate's Cap-and-Tax Bill … a massive tax increase wrapped around an ineffectual response to a hoax environmental crisis. This has led the New York Times's Thomas Friendman — the man who would marry the Chinese Autocracy if he could — to have a sort of breakdown thingy.
"This is a disaster … This is a travesty. Basically, we were about to send the first bi-partisan legislation for radical move toward more green energy, more green jobs and putting a price on carbon…"
Anytime a twit like Thomas Friedman is throwing a hissy, it's a good day for America.
Friedman, by the way, considers John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, and Lindsey Graham to be America's political center.
Morning Briefs for Monday Item #1: Democrats Move Against Free Speech
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:29 AM
Good Morning Right-Wing Patriots and Allahu Akbar Left-Wingers,
The Democrats --- who believe foreign terrorists should have Constitutional rights, but American companies shouldn't--- are preparing to roll out a new bill to limit the participation of American companies and citizen groups in the political process.
Public employee unions will still be free to launder their taxpayer-provided dues back into the coffers of the Democrat party under this law, of course.
April 25, 2010
More Hysteria From the Left About Arizona's Immigration Enforcement Law
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 5:41 PM
From the left-wing free-weekly New Times:
Yet More Nativist Legislation Outlawing Brown People Brought to Us By a Neo-Nazi Hugger
The non-hysterical truth of the matter is that there is nothing in the Arizona Law that isn't in existing Federal Immigration Law. States like Arizona are just fed up with refusal of the Federal Government to enforce its immigration laws against illegal immigrants.
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
Posted by Dave Blount at 11:31 AM
Stay psyched, patriots. The real battle hasn't started yet, and America cannot afford for us to lose.
On a tip from TED.
Green Energy Mythology
Posted by The MaryHunter at 11:10 AM
Our parish is going green, trying to reduce its Holy Carbon Footprint and soliciting parishioner and outside funds to this end. The fervor with which many Christian churches are trying to comply with the eco-moonbat mythology of Gaia is bordering on sacreligious.
Conservatives love the wilderness and appreciate the importance of clean air, land, and water just as much as lefties do -- and even more so, if measured by the clean-up efforts of their respective protest movements. While it is laudable to ""protect the environment" of this great nation, the most effective means of doing it are misunderstood at best, and misrepresented at worst.
Let's think green based on actual science and fact, rather than falsehood and emotion. Here are five myths about green energy that all Patriots should not only understand themselves, but also educate others about:
1. Solar and wind power are the greenest of them all.
Unfortunately, solar and wind technologies require huge amounts of land to deliver relatively small amounts of energy, disrupting natural habitats. Even an aging natural gas well producing 60,000 cubic feet per day generates more than 20 times the watts per square meter of a wind turbine. A nuclear power plant cranks out about 56 watts per square meter, eight times as much as is derived from solar photovoltaic installations.
Nor does wind energy substantially reduce CO2 emissions. Since the wind doesn't always blow, utilities must use gas- or coal-fired generators to offset wind's unreliability. The result is minimal -- or no -- carbon dioxide reduction.
2. Going green will reduce our dependence on imports from unsavory regimes.
In the new green economy, batteries are not included. Neither are many of the "rare earth" elements that are essential ingredients in most alternative energy technologies. Instead of relying on the diversity of the global oil market -- about 20 countries each produce at least 1 million barrels of crude per day -- the United States will be increasingly reliant on just one supplier, China, for elements known as lanthanides. Lanthanum, neodymium, dysprosium and other rare earth elements are used in products from high-capacity batteries and hybrid-electric vehicles to wind turbines and oil refinery catalysts.
3. A green American economy will create green American jobs.
[T]he very concept of a green job is not well defined. Is a job still green if it's created not by the market, but by subsidy or mandate? Consider the claims being made by the subsidy-dependent corn ethanol industry. Growth Energy, an industry lobby group, says increasing the percentage of ethanol blended into the U.S. gasoline supply would create 136,000 jobs. But an analysis by the Environmental Working Group found that no more than 27,000 jobs would be created, and each one could cost taxpayers as much as $446,000 per year. Sure, the government can create more green jobs. But at what cost?
4. Electric cars will substantially reduce demand for oil.
Those who believe that Detroit unplugged the electric car are mistaken. Electric cars haven't been sidelined by a cabal to sell internal combustion engines or a lack of political will, but by physics and math. Gasoline contains about 80 times as much energy, by weight, as the best lithium-ion battery. Sure, the electric motor is more efficient than the internal combustion engine, but can we depend on batteries that are notoriously finicky, short-lived and take hours to recharge?
5. The United States lags behind other rich countries in going green.
Over the past three decades, the United States has improved its energy efficiency as much as or more than other developed countries. According to data from the Energy Information Administration, average per capita energy consumption in the United States fell by 2.5 percent from 1980 through 2006. That reduction was greater than in any other developed country except Switzerland and Denmark, and the United States achieved it without participating in the Kyoto Protocol or creating an emissions trading system like the one employed in Europe.
If you want to believe in these and the other myths about green energy and green jobs, you might as well believe that anyone besides Laurence Olivier could do justice to the role of Zeus. In fact, you might as well just believe in Zeus and the Greek pantheon, period.
Fired for Not Being Gay
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:51 AM
Where's the ACLU when you need it?
A 30-year-old straight man says he was fired for not being gay, or gay enough, while working at Suzie's Adult Superstore in California, CBS station KOVR-TV reports.
Suzie's Sleazy Superstore has the right to hire and fire whoever they want — as does every other business. However, this is a basic right that our rulers usually ignore.
On a tip from Steve T.
Biden Blast From the Past
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:44 AM
Al Sharpton's expression at the end of this clip is priceless:
Imagine if a conservative accused black women of needing to be taught that they can say no. We'd still be watching the fireworks.
Via The Black Sphere, on a tip from Leslie.
April 24, 2010
May 20th: Everybody Draw Mohammed Day
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 10:40 AM
Because after all, they can't kill all of us!
If Only More People Had Listened…
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:24 AM
Before the Tea Party, there was the Coffee Klatch — where Ronaldus Maximus tried to warn us what statists intended to do to our country:
Compliments of Leslie.
ObamaCare Shortfalls Have Already Begun
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:04 AM
How much money will Big Government have to expropriate from us to finance "high-risk pools"? Don't ask Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, aka the Abortion Queen — she admits she has no idea:
At least we know this much: it will be a lot more over the next 4 years than the $5 billion that was budgeted. But of course, anyone with more brains than a turnip already knew that every aspect of ObamaCare would end up costing us many times more than originally claimed.
Via Breitbart.tv, on a tip from Milton.
Arizona Goes It Alone on Illegal Immigration
Posted by The MaryHunter at 8:40 AM
Arizona's new illegal immigration bill law is causing quite a stir among fans of illegal immigration amnesty and foes of "racial profiling" nationwide. President Obama referred to it as "misguided" and representing "irresponsibility" while a liberal Democrat Arizona lawmaker is actually encouraging a boycott of Arizona businesses, as a way to prevent other states from following suit. John "McAmnesty" McCain, on the other hand, has flip-flopped a bit on the issue as part of his brazen shift to the right in a tough re-election bid.
Newsy.com provides a collection of videos and a concise discussion of both sides of the debate, compiled from several cable news outlets.
So let's hear it Patriots and Prog Trolls: did Arizona go too far? Not far enough? Or, just nuke Mexico and be done with the problem once and for all? (Only kidding - blame Canada is what I meant.)
Hat tip: iOwnTheWorld.
April 23, 2010
Open Thread
Posted by Dave Blount at 3:10 PM
CNN: Volcanoes and Earthquakes Are Gaia's Revenge
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 3:00 PM
From the network where an anchor wondered how there could be volcanoes in Iceland because it was so cold up there, comes a column by "Environmental Author" Alan Weisman, warning us that Gaia is angry about our carbon spewage, and asking "Is the Earth striking back?"
Both Iceland and the United States exalt democracy as a social achievement worthy of lasting an eternity. Yet the latter's unprecedented strength has derived not just from enlightened government, but from the release of its own hot clouds: exhaust from its vast industries, fleets and mechanized agriculture.
...
As it does, a volcano awakens in Iceland (with another, larger and adjacent to still-erupting Eyjafjallajokull, threatening to detonate next). The Earth shudders in Haiti. Then Chile. Then western China. Mexicali-Calexico. The Solomon Islands. Spain. New Guinea. And those are just the big ones, 6+ on the Richter scale, and just in 2010. And it's only April.
To the moonbat left, the notion that promiscuous women cause earthquakes is worthy of ridicule, or would be if it weren't a Muslim making the case. But the idea that SUV's cause earthquakes is considered reasonable enough for CNN to put the idea on its website.
Hat Tip: Ace
"Racist" Tea Partiers
Posted by Dave Blount at 2:04 PM
Just in case any non-moonbats are clueless enough to take seriously the establishment media's mendacious, irrelevant, and clearly desperate denunciations of Tea Parties as "racist":
It's the liberal ruling class that's obsessed with race. In contrast, Tea Parties are about liberty.
On a tip from Nancz.
Woot!
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 1:49 PM
A Second Navy SEAL has been cleared of charges relating to the alleged nose-punching of the Iraqi terrorist who became a sweetheart to Daily Kos readers after murdering four American contractors in Iraq. ("Screw 'Em!" to quote the exuberant lead Kostard acknowledging the deaths of those Americans.)
Hat Tip: SR
Personally, I think terrorists taken alive should get the treatment Brad Pitt gave to captured Nazis in Inglorious Basterds. But that's just me.
The Bush Is Gone But the Hatred Still Burns
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 12:50 PM
A Middle School Principal in Georgia invited a rapper to give a speech at his school, said speech being part of the rapper's "community service" for illegal possession of firearms, which he was not allowed to possess because of his earlier conviction for distributing crack cocaine.
A concerned parent -- who obviously knows nothing about adolescent child development because he didn't go to Teacher College -- didn't think this rapper was a really good role model, and protested to the principal in an email.
"The first e-mail I sent to him was to ask that from now on we have some kind of parental input whether or not a speaker is appropriate. If I don't want my child to be there, just give me the right to opt them out," (the parent) said.(The parent) also wrote in the e-mail, "How about next time, let him mow the grass or pick up the trash around the school grounds? If the kids see that they might understand that what he did was wrong."
This didn't sit too well with the principal, who is, after all, a certified and unionized Educator; before whom all should bow. And he wrote back...
I thought about asking a guy who snorted cocaine and got arrested for DUI when he was 30 to come and speak to our kids, but President George W. Bush was not available.
I cannot improve on Claire @ Knowledge Is Power's rebuttal:
Bush is, now and forever, their all-purpose insulator against criticism. They've convinced themselves that they need never explain or defend themselves in any context outside the former presidency.
Confronted with the challenge of defending the indefensible (which is 90% of their agenda), the progressive left will always resort to personal attacks. Always. But, c'mon. The guy's been out of office for over a year. Move on, already!
A Good Point About Comedy Cowardly Central's Islamic Submission
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 11:23 AM
Jon Stewart had a great time mocking the Catholic Church for several weeks. Bet he doesn't have the guts to touch this issue and mock Moslems.
Yeah, if only the Catholic Church beheaded its critics and sent suicide bombers to kill non-Catholics; then the Progressive Left would show them some respect.
That was SARCASM! (Because our trolls are too stupid to know otherwise.)
Update: Some are claiming this video of Jon Stewart doing his usual schtick of making faces at the camera while reading some snark off the teleprompter in a sarcastic tone of voice exonerates Cowardly Central because he tells the group that made the threat to F--- off! Well and good, but it doesn't change the fact that the progressive left is indulgent when attacking non-violent religions and cowardly when addressing the world's most violent one.
Government Admits ObamaCare Will Raise Healthcare Costs
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:57 AM
This isn't exactly news — except possibly to the most gullible Obamunists:
President Obama's health care overhaul law will increase the nation's health care tab instead of bringing costs down, government economic forecasters concluded Thursday in a sobering assessment of the sweeping legislation. … [The Health and Human Services Department] also warned that Medicare cuts may be unrealistic and unsustainable, driving about 15% of hospitals into the red and "possibly jeopardizing access" to care for seniors.
That's what Comrade Obama's own bureaucrats say. To get an idea of just how much damage this insane power grab will do to health care, the economy, and our liberty, wait around a few years, until BHO is safely out of office and the entire monstrosity has gone into effect.
"A trillion dollars gets spent, and it's no surprise — health care costs are going to go up," said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., a leading Republican on health care issues.
Meanwhile, the most audacious liars among the liberal establishment continue to holler that Chairman Zero is reducing our tax burden, as if the $trillions he's flushed away will magically reappear amid the lint BHO digs out of his navel.
In another flashing yellow light, the report warned that a new voluntary long-term care insurance program created under the law faces "a very serious risk" of insolvency.
As do Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and every other extravagant entitlement our socialist rulers have seen fit to bestow upon us — as well as the federal government itself. When the whole house of cards collapses, we'll see if it turns out as well for the left as Cloward and Piven planned.
On a tip from Michelle.
In Case You Needed Another Reason Not to Buy a Prius
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:35 AM
In addition to being an outrageous waste of money, goofy-looking Priuses make us even more beholden to the communist Chinese:
The electric vehicle movement may move mankind away from relying on one scarce resource, but into relying on another, believes Robert Bryce, author of "Power Hungry: The Myths of 'Green' Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future" (PublicAffairs; 2010). Bryce addressed journalists at the 2010 Toyota Sustainable Mobility Seminar in La Jolla, California detailing the industry's growing addiction to rare earth metals.
Most electric vehicles and hybrids heavily rely on a series of elements called the lanthanides, which rarely occur on Earth, and thus are aptly nicknamed "rare-earth metals". The Toyota Prius, the world's most popular hybrid, for example, uses 2.2 pounds of neodymium and about 22 pounds of lanthanum, in addition to cerium, yttrium, and zirconium. …
One headache for the U.S. is not only that the elements are so scarce, but where they primarily come from. According to an April 1 report, China by the Government Accounting Office, entitled "Rare Earth Materials in the Defense Supply Chain", states, "Most rare earth material processing now occurs in China. In 2009, China produced about 97 percent of rare earth oxides."
When it comes to production sources, there is some hope in the near future, says Bryce. The U.S. does have substantial rare-earth reserves of its own, but it just hasn't exploited them.
That's probably because our moonbat rulers don't approve of exploiting resources, except when it's done behind the bamboo curtain where they can't see it. After all, despoiling the environment defeats the whole purpose of puttering along in a Pious — never mind that Hummers are more eco-friendly.
On a tip from Edward.
Andy Stern's Debt-ridden Stint at SEIU
Posted by The MaryHunter at 9:15 AM
Andy Stern, former Thug-in-Chief of the SEIU, was an expert at the proven Washington talent of deficit spending. In fact, he deserves an A+ for working above and beyond the call of duty, taking SEIU to new debt highs.
SEIU has seen its liabilities skyrocket during the past decade. The union's liabilities totaled $7,625,832 in 2000. By 2009, they had increased almost by a factor of 16, to $120,893,259. Meanwhile, SEIU's assets barely tripled, growing from $66,632,631 in 2000 to $187,664,763 in 2009. A significant portion of SEIU's current assets are from IOUs from hard-up locals.
SEIU is $85 million in debt, down from its 2008 high of $102 million, and has been forced to lay off employees.
Both of SEIU's two national pension plans, the SEIU National Industry Pension Fund and the Pension Plan for Employees of the SEIU, issued critical-status letters last year. The Pension Protection Act requires any pension fund that is funded below 65 percent of what it needs to pay its obligations to inform its beneficiaries of the deficit.
Given his close ties to the Obama White House (in which he apparently has a standing invitation to stay in the "Purple" room), don't be surprised if Obama raises Stern to a position of power and prominence in the regime. Just the kind of guy we need advising Chairman Zero on matters economic.
Dems Conspire to Kill the Filibuster
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:53 AM
It's as if the power-drunk socialists currently in the driver's seat think they'll be there forever. Do they know something the pollsters don't? Now they want to kill the filibuster.
Here's what Dems said in defense of the filibuster just a few years ago, when they were in the minority, and Republicans were considering the "nuclear option" to get judges confirmed:
Dingy Harry Reid:
The need to muster 60 votes in order to terminate senate debate naturally frustrates the majority and oftentimes the minority. I am sure it will frustrate me when I assume the office of majority leader in a few weeks. But I recognize this requirement is a tool that serves the long-term interest of the Senate and the American people and our country.
Charles "Chuckie Shmucky" Schumer:
The basic makeup of our Senate is at stake. The checks and balances that Americans prize are at stake. The idea of bipartisanship, where you have to come together and can't just ram everything through because you have a narrow majority, is at stake. The very things we treasure and love about this grand republic are at stake.
Barack Insane Maobama:
What [the American people] do not expect is for one party, be it Republican or Democrat, to change the rules in the middle of the game so they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet.
Et cetera, ad nauseam. But now, with 41 Republican Senators and a radical left agenda to ram through, they feel differently.
The Senate Rules Committee met on Thursday morning to examine the filibuster rules and decide whether or not the rules should be reformed. Senator Chuck Schumer, New York Democrat and Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, opened the hearing declaring, "filibusters and cloture motions have escalated in recent years to unprecedented levels."
Current trends make it obvious that Republicans will take control of the Senate again in the 2012 if not 2010 elections, at which point they won't have to worry about the filibuster if Dems succeed in destroying it.
Are Dems counting on amnesty or some other means of preventing voters from taking away the power they have so recklessly abused? Or are they totally oblivious not only to our future, but to their own, as they focus like maniacs on inflicting as much damage as possible before voters can put a stop to them? In either case, November 2008 will be regretted for the rest of our history.
On tips from Oiao and Scott. Hat tip: Gateway Pundit.
California Bureauweenies Punish the Righteous, Reward the Wicked
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:11 AM
In a world run by moonbats, there's a price to be paid for not helping to advance degradation and depravity. The Girl Scouts are on board with the progressive agenda, going so far as to encourage children to have sex and to keep the STDs they spread secret. But the Boy Scouts, not wanting an reenactment of the Catholic priest pedophile scandals, have been reluctant to send little boys out into the woods with noisily homosexual scoutmasters. Hence, the punishment from our liberal masters:
Lawmakers in California, presented with resolutions to honor both the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts for the organizations' contributions to America over the generations, adopted the one regarding Girl Scouts but shredded the proposal for the Boy Scouts and ripped into the organization for teaching "hate."
The irony of the lawmakers' refusal to tolerate the Boy Scouts' beliefs in the name of "tolerance" was pointed out in a report by the California Family Council.
In addition to failing to facilitate pederasty, the Boy Scouts also stand accused of not embracing atheism.
In contrast, the Girl Scouts get brownie points for not only accepting but actively promoting depravity:
According to the Associated Press, the majority Democrats added a reference to the Girl Scouts' honor noting that the group has an open-sexual-orientation policy, and Republicans were indignant.
"I just don't understand why this chamber wants to sexualize children," said Assembly member Diane Harkey, a Republican.
Here's why: corruption is the end goal toward which progressives are progressing. Only when we've been reduced to farm animals rutting in the mud when we're not contentedly fattening ourselves on free swill in our fenced-in sties will liberal utopia be achieved.
On a tip from Charlie G.
Of Easter Eggs and the Nanny State
Posted by The MaryHunter at 6:40 AM
This year's White House Easter Egg Roll is the perfect paradigm of what the Nanny State wants to do for to Americans, simply because it knows better than we do.
You might recall that, to the dismay of the young children bursting with enthusiasm about this fun and yummy tradition, this year's event became a "teachable moment" photo op, and therefore
...did not include the distribution of teeth-rotting, obesity-inducing candy. "Every goodie bag," according to one account, "was stuffed with pre-screened fruit, and the grounds were filled with exercise stations." One can only imagine the joy on young faces when they got their apple and their workout.
The Nanny State, with all the "best" of intentions, intends to impose an ObamaCare rationality on Americans who simply do not know any better. It aims to strip us of any and all risk, any and all chance to push down that wellness curve, and ultimately, any and all joy.
The freedom to eat the occasional sweet or even to let our teeth rot if we want is to be replaced with soft tyranny that coldly coddles us as actuaries count the ways Big Government can intervene, protect and neutralize, in the name of Big Society.
But whatever happened to letting life take its course -- with the good, the bad, even the ugly? Well now, that allows too much freedom, doesn't it. To the Nanny State,
...freedom implies some leeway for personal risk and minor, pleasurable foolishness. Democrats in particular seem to be afflicted with Mary Poppins Syndrome: They will not rest until Americans are practically perfect in every way.
And, in the process, they will de-Americanize America into a safe, dull, progressive, tasteless-as-baby-carrots, utopian sameness. This is certainly not what the Founders envisioned. (And they had really awful teeth, too.)
Morning Briefs for Friday Item #1: Comedy Central, US Army Bow to Radical Islam
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 5:00 AM
Good Morning Right-Wing Patriots, Good Morning Left-Wingers with Horrible Skin Problems,
Thursday on South Park, Comedy Central went the extra mile in order to appease the Religion of Peace That Will Blow You and Your Family to Bits if You Dare Suggest They Aren't Peaceful, not only censoring any image of Muhammed, but bleeping over the word Muhammed whenever it appeared in the script.
So, does this mean Mohammed is one of the eight dirty words you can't say on TV? It's in good company.
And the US Army has uninvited the Reverend Franklin Graham from participating in a prayer service at the Pentagon, because his presence offended Muslims. This is the same Army that let an Islamist nutjob psychiatrist preach hate and consort with terrorists until the day he shot up Fort Hood… also because they didn't want to offend Muslims.
Item #2: Chairman Zero's Commie Terrorist Ghost Writer
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:59 AM
If you are one of those people who have trouble believing an idiot who couldn't order a happy meal without a teleprompter could write a book like Dreams From My Father, then, first of all, welcome hail and well met, brother. And second of all, here's some grist for that mill.
Item #3: Chairman Zero's Smart Diplomacy
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:35 AM
Robert Gates was wrong, the administration does have a strategy for dealing with Iran; and Michael Ramirez tells you what it is.
VAT of Excrement
Posted by The MaryHunter at 4:30 AM
As the Obama regime continues to spend our country into oblivion, the realization that this level of spending is unsustainable has even occurred to some administration officials. A value-added tax is a tempting and logical next step for this progressive-socialist regime to consider, even though it would not be an easy budget fix in the slightest. Obamanation may think: Why not break a few "no new middle-class taxes" promises made to a nation that already disapproves of its leadership anyway? Even some conservatives support a VAT in principle. But there are many problems with a VAT that we can learn from our European cousins.
VATs were sold in Europe as a way to tax consumption, which in principle does less economic harm than taxing income, savings or investment. This sounds good, but in practice the VAT has rarely replaced the income tax, or even resulted in a lower income-tax rate.
What's more, VATs rarely stay at their original rate at implementation, as shown below.
In 2008, the average resident of West Virginia, one of the poorest American states, had an income $2,000 a year higher than the average resident of the European Union, according to economist Mark Perry of the University of Michigan, Flint. The price of a much higher tax burden to finance a cradle-to-grave entitlement state in Europe has been a lower standard of living. VAT supporters should explain why the same won't be true in America.
A VAT would not simply replace other taxes, since that would be too easy.
This would be in addition to the tax increases and new taxes imposed already by the Obama Administration, including expiration of the Bush tax cuts for high-earners, an increase in the dividends tax rate, an increase in the capital gains tax rate, and a total of 18 new taxes under the recently-passed health care bill.
Prepare to bend over and open up, Patriots. The VAT is coming. Maybe not this Congress, but it's coming... unless something in Washington seriously changes in 2010 and 2012.
April 22, 2010
Open Thread
Posted by Dave Blount at 7:01 PM
Carlin on Earth Day: Leave Nature Alone
Posted by The MaryHunter at 6:02 PM
Brilliant as ever, George Carlin eviscerates the eco-moonbat lefties who would "save the planet" when they can't even save themselves.
Colorful language warning, but it's just gone late prime time on the east coast. And, well, it's George Carlin.
Gov. Christie's Smackdown of a Liberal Legacy
Posted by The MaryHunter at 5:11 PM
George Will reports on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is working hard to redress some serious wrongs from the tax-and-spend Corzine administration. The financial mess that Christie has had to deal with in his first year has been staggering.
He inherited a $2.2 billion deficit, and next year's projected deficit of $10.7 billion is, relative to the state's $29.3 billion budget, the nation's worst. Democrats, with the verbal tic -- "Tax the rich!" -- that passes for progressive thinking, demanded that he reinstate the "millionaire's tax," which hit "millionaires" earning $400,000 until it expired Dec. 31. Instead, Christie noted that between 2004 and 2008 there was a net outflow of $70 billion in wealth as "the rich," including small businesses, fled. And he said previous administrations had "raised taxes 115 times in the last eight years alone."
So he closed the $2.2 billion gap by accepting 375 of 378 suggested spending freezes and cuts. In two weeks. By executive actions. In eight weeks he cut $13 billion -- $232 million a day, $9 million an hour.
You want government excess? Here's your government excess, says Christie:
Government employees' health benefits are, he says, "41 percent more expensive" than those of the average Fortune 500 company. Without changes in current law, "spending will have increased 322 percent in 20 years -- over 16 percent a year."
Partly to pay for teachers' benefits -- most contribute nothing to pay for their health insurance -- property taxes have increased 70 percent in 10 years, to an average annual cost to homeowners of $7,281.Christie proposes a 2.5 percent cap on annual increases.
Challenging teachers unions to live up to their cloying "it's really about the kids" rhetoric, he has told them to choose between a pay freeze and job cuts.
Christie notes that the $550,000 salary of the executive director of the teachers union is larger than the total cuts proposed for 190 of the state's 605 school districts.
The path to New Jersey's fiscal oblivion was well-paved by years of Democrat corruption and union excesses. Christie has his work cut out for him, but so far, he seems to be doing all the right things.
Jason Mattera and the Personification of Corruption
Posted by Dave Blount at 3:42 PM
You can learn something from anyone. For example, from Rep Barney Frank — Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee — Jason Mattera hopes to learn how to start a brothel:
On a tip from glenwood183.
Moonbats Celebrate Earth Day
Posted by Dave Blount at 2:07 PM
If you think you have the stomach to watch moonbats celebrate Lenin's birthday Earth Day (or maybe it's Bacchus Day? Bill Clinton Day?), click here.
As you can see, losing is not an option in the Culture War.
Via iOwnTheWorld, on a tip from Hail The Amberlamps!
ACORN Boss Calls Tea Parties a "Bowel Movement"
Posted by Dave Blount at 12:50 PM
In case you missed the Queen of ACORN's little "bowel movement" joke during one of her recent rants, the Daily Caller reports:
Lewis said to applause that the Tea Party movement, a grassroots movement against big government, was a "bowel movement in my estimation" that is associated with "racism."
Lewis also openly embraced the label "socialist."
Why does it matter what kind of filth and insanity oozes out of this creature's mouth? Because she represents the milieu that produced the community activist currently presiding over our government. A peek at Lewis's Rolodex confirms that she maintains close ties with the Obamination Administration.
But ACORN is dead, they tell us. Not at all. As recently as last week, it was still sending out emails asking for money. Currently it is in the process of decentralizing and rebranding, now that so many people are aware of just how vile an organization Comrade Obama's alma mater really is. But with connections to the very top, ACORN will be with us for awhile, under whatever names, soaking up tax money, eroding liberty, and crowing in delight when citizens have their property expropriated under imminent domain on behalf of ACORN allies.
For those who just can't get enough Bertha:
On tips from Edward, Byron, and Matthew.
Virginia Limits Public Funding of Abortion - Thanks to Obama
Posted by The MaryHunter at 11:58 AM
From the Irony Doesn't Just Involve Wrinkled Laundry Department: the pro-life community just scored a big one in Virginia.
On a 20 to 19 vote, the Democratic-led Senate agreed to an amendment proposed by [Gov. Robert F.] McDonnell (R) that would limit state funding for abortions to those performed in cases of rape or incest or when the life of the mother is at risk. Nothing in state law previously prohibited Medicaid-funded abortions in instances when the health of the mother was in jeopardy.
The beauty of this is the precedent Gov. McDonnell used to lobby for his amendment.
McDonnell argued that his proposal would bring Virginia into line with federal law on the issue, recently restated by an executive order signed by President Obama.
What a topsy-turvy world! We have the most pro-abortion president in history actually setting the stage for arguments against publicly funded abortion at the state level. This could bring about an anti-abortion legislation wave across the nation, especially after the 2010 elections. One wonders whether Obama regrets that disingenuous and utterly meaningless Stupak executive order, a few pieces of silver to secure passage of ObamaCare.
An Erf Day Classic!
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 11:36 AM
Would BHO Shoot Down Israeli Jets on Behalf of Iran?
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:39 AM
In the nightmare bizarro-world of Hopey Change, America's government is allied with our enemies against our allies. This is why Comrade Obama backed an attempted communist coup in Honduras — and why he may shoot down Israeli jets that try to interfere with Iran's nuclear weapons program.
In a town hall on the campus of West Virginia University, a young Air Force ROTC cadet asked Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen to respond to a "rumor." If Israel decided to attack Iran, the speculation went, those jets would need to fly through Iraqi airspace to reach their targets. That airspace is considered a "no-fly" zone by the American military. So might U.S. troops shoot down the Israeli jets, the airmen asked the chairman, if they breached that airspace?
Mullen's answer: "Quack quack quack equivocate vacillate quack quack quack."
The cadet followed-up: "Would an airman like me ever be ordered to fire on an Israeli — aircraft or personnel?"
Mullen's answer: "Quack quack quack equivocate vacillate quack quack quack." In short, he wouldn't answer.
Does this represent a shift in American policy towards Israel? Some signal that the U.S. would stop an Israeli first strike at the final moment? Probably not. I'd guess this is Mullen trying not to wade further into treacherous waters. But it was interesting to hear America's top military officer decline to knock down the idea that U.S. troops might fire on America's closest ally in the Middle East.
For anyone who has been asleep for the last 40 years, the Iranian terror regime has been at war with the United States since 1979, and in that time has managed to kill quite a few Americans through terror attacks like the Kobar Towers, using cat's paws like Hamas and Hezbollah, and by supplying weapons used to kill our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet it is entirely conceivable that the cancer calling itself our government would attack Israel — an island of relative liberty in a sea of tyranny — on behalf of Iran, effectively to allow Islamic maniacs to acquire nuclear weapons.
It isn't only Israel that will pay the price for the liberal posturing that put a left-wing adolescent in charge of our foreign policy. A single nuclear device exploded over the center of the country would do more damage to the economy even than Cap & Trade, by frying circuits with an electromagnetic pulse, resulting in total economic meltdown. This is why Iran is working busily on its long-range missile program, with help from B. Hussein's partners in peace, Russia and China.
If we all join hands and work together, we can bring about the "destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilization," in keeping with Iran's promises and Chairman Zero's agenda.
On a tip from J. Hat tip: Gateway Pundit, Mere Rhetoric.
Happy Earth Day From GreeNazi Magazine
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:06 AM
Compliments of iOwnTheWorld.
Liberty in America: Not
Posted by The MaryHunter at 9:34 AM
A great post at Big Government taps into the extreme wisdom of Alexis de Toqueville, who in the mid-1800s studied American society perhaps more astutely than any historian before or since. Here is just one of his timeless observations:
It would seem that, if despotism were to be established amongst the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them.
[...]
It is therefore most especially in the present democratic times, that the true friends of the liberty and the greatness of man ought constantly to be on the alert, to prevent the power of government from lightly sacrificing the private rights of individuals to the general executions of its designs.
Talk about a Nostradamus: de Toqueville had the progressive movement pegged well before Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were laying the groundwork for FDR, LBJ, and BHO.
Moonbat Brainwashers Need to Get Them Even Younger
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:09 AM
According to moonbat ideology, gender is just a social construct, and it's perfectly normal for boys to turn out like Adam Lambert. But in the alternate dimension known among non-liberals as "reality"…
Baby girls make a beeline for dolls as soon as they can crawl — and boys will head for the toy cars, a study has shown.
With no prompting, they will choose the stereotypical toys for their gender.
The findings — the first to show consistent differences in very young babies — suggest there is a biological basis to their preferences.
No kidding. But the lesson our progressive overlords will draw from this is that brainwashing must begin even earlier. This appears to be the reasoning behind a new Al Gore initiative entitled Inconvenient Youth:
Teens who want to make a real difference in the fight against climate change will now have a place to share their pledges, actions and ideas. Inconvenient Youth (www.inconvenientyouth.org), the new teen climate education initiative of The Climate Project, a program of the Alliance for Climate Protection, will launch on Earth Day, April 22. Inconvenient Youth will also enable five teens to participate in The Climate Project's upcoming Our Choice Training with Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore, to be held in June. The initiative dovetails with the Alliance's Repower America "youth surge" campaign to organize students on college campuses across the country.
Apparently even the Goracle has given up on getting grown adults to believe in the global warming hoax. Next up, when even teens become aware that the authorities have been lying to them: Inconvenient Toddlers. This video — which may actually be on the level — gives an idea of how young Prince Albert already needs to go to find new acolytes gullible enough to drink his snake oil:
Like the Apple computer? It's powered by vegetable oil. No, that's the car. But the Goracle is on the board of militantly moonbatty Apple. By the way, using vegetable oil to power cars is not only insane but unsustainable. But at least it emits CO2, which helps make the crops grow.
On tips from Oiao and Scott. Hat tips: Watts Up With That, Ace of Spades.
Tax Hikes A-Comin'!
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 8:48 AM
Apologists for Chairman Zero claim that Tea Party concerns over taxes are ridiculous. They even claim Obama cut taxes, although when asked to show where tax rates have been reduced for anyone they are reduced to pointing to chump-change tax credits, which are not really tax cuts but a form of wealth redistribution.
Unlike Progressive Lefties, Tea Party Patriots are smart enough to know that trillion dollar deficits and trillion dollar health care entitlements will lead to multi-trillion dollar tax increases, because 1. Democrats won't cut spending, 2. Democrats won't cut spending especially when they are owned body and soul by public employee unions, and 3. Democrats won't cut spending.
Even the AP Admits: Millions face tax increases under Dems budget plan . And even these massive tax increases will do little to close the deficit because without fiscal discipline, spending increases will always outpace tax revenue increases. And the effect of taking trillions of dollars out of a weak economy will not be healthy... try taking two quarts of blood out of an anemic patient and see what happens.
And Chairman Zero, over-ruling denials from Robert Gibbs, has admitted that a VAT is on the table.
When asked if he could see a potential VAT in this nation, the president said: "I know that there's been a lot of talk around town lately about the value-added tax. That is something that has worked for some countries. It's something that would be novel for the United States."
Yeah, a Stephen King novel. And it's certain the Democrats would love to impose a VAT, but they would also still like to hold a few seats outside of San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle after the November elections, so they won't impose one just yet.
Bill Gates, Racist
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:14 AM
What do you know: the people running America really are racists. The world's second richest man and first richest dorkazoid Bill Gates, for example:
Bill Gates has made his scholarship fund off limits to white teenagers. The Gates Millennium Scholarship fund is financed by a $1 Billion endowment Bill Gates made in 1999. The fund explicitly denies eligibility to white students.
"Students are eligible to be considered for a GMS scholarship if they: Are African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian and Pacific Islander American, or Hispanic American."
But then, from the liberal point of view, it would probably be discriminatory not to exclude Caucasians. So much for that "content of their character not the color of their skin" stuff.
On a tip from SK.
Good News Everyone
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 8:11 AM
A Navy SEAL accused of punching a terrorist in the nose has been cleared of charges of failing to prevent the "beating." A jury determined that the terrorist was a lying sack of crap had not proven that any abuse occurred.
The terrorist in question had been involved in the murder of four Americans contractors in 2004, which made him something of a hero at DailyKos, who said of the murdered Americans "Screw 'em!"
Open Thread
Posted by Dave Blount at 7:26 AM
A Patriots Guide to Earth Day
Posted by The MaryHunter at 7:10 AM
The Heritage Foundation has a non-hippy-assed view of protecting the earth:
The left in this country has always considered it "tragic" when people make money in this country, and the plight of the earth is just one of many justifications they have used over the years to demonize free markets. Back in the 70s, President Barack Obama's Director for Science and Technology Policy John Holdren even came up with a formula to measure capitalism's evil impact on the environment: I=PAT, which means that environmental impact is equal to population multiplied by affluence multiplied by technology. Thus according to the left, protecting the planet requires fewer people, less wealth and simpler technology. But this is just flat wrong. In fact, studies clearly show that important indicators of environmental quality actually improve as incomes and levels of consumption go up.
And how do incomes and levels of consumption go up? You said it, Patriot: only through economic freedom.
Specifically, the expansion of trade and the protection of property rights are fundamental to ensuring economic growth and environmental improvement. A recent study from the World Bank reports that freer trade is "a key factor in helping developing countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change." And assigning clear property rights for natural resources like the world's fisheries have proven environmental gain.
The Heritage Foundation article is replete with other examples and studies showing how smart capitalism fosters both growing economies and a better-protected environments -- examples that the prog trolls will either utterly ignore or poo-poo on this unholy day of moonbattery.
The Party of Fiscal Irresponsibility
Posted by The MaryHunter at 5:33 AM
Hah, you thought I was referring to the party in power, those progressive Democrats. Guess again.
Barely 6 1/2 months before the midterm elections, an internal investigation by the Republican National Committee has revealed that the organization is beset with questionable financial management and oversight and is spending more money courting top-dollar donors than it raises.
The investigation found that the Republican Party's national governing body is losing money on its major-donors' fundraising program -- spending $1.09 for each $1.00 raised, according to RNC members privy to the investigation's findings. It typically costs about 40 cents for every dollar raised from donors who give more than $1,000.
It takes the kind of rocket science akin to that of Nancy Pelosi to lose money on fund raising, especially in this economy.
The report says several RNC Finance Department employees have been forging [Finance Director Rob] Bickhart's signature for reimbursement for the purchase of clothing, wine and entertainment expenses, including some that were labeled as office supplies. (Yes, this includes the S&M shows in LA.)
The report also said widespread employee abuse of RNC-provided American Express cards prompted a recommendation at the end of last year that the cards be yanked from all employees and officers except for Mr. Steele and his chief administrative officer, Boyd Rutherford.
There is plenty more in the report to keep most honest Republicans wondering why they would ever support the party directly. If a political party cannot keep its own financial house in order, how can we expect it to be sensible when it comes to choosing and supporting political candidates for the coming election cycles?
Advice to frustrated conservatives who wish to be embarrassed no more by the RNC:
(1) Remember New York 23rd.
(2) Donate directly to candidates or via dedicated, responsible organizations, like Club for Growth, which track key races and support truly conservative candidates.
(3) Spread the word.
Item #3: Bisexuals Sue After Being Told "You're Not Gay Enough"
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:46 AM
The Victim Groups Turn on Each Other Over Who is the Biggest Victim.
Three bisexual men are suing a national gay-athletic organization, saying they were discriminated against during the Gay Softball World Series held in the Seattle area two years ago.
The three Bay Area men say the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance in essence deemed them not gay enough to participate in the series.
I am thinking the way they determined they weren't gay enough was by asking, "Do you watch Glee?" And when they answered. "Yeah, sometimes, but we're not that into it," they were judged "Not Gay Enough."
Hat Tip: AoS HQ.
Update: And in Philadelphia,
Veteran Rep. Babette Josephs (D., Phila.) last Thursday accused her primary opponent, Gregg Kravitz, of pretending to be bisexual in order to pander to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender voters.
Item #2: Palis Get Themselves a Boat
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:18 AM
The "Free Gaza Movement" -- which supports the Palestinians in their efforts to finish what Hitler started --- have purchased for their Palestinian comrades a decrepit merchant ship which they intend to use to ship guns, bombs, and rockets cement, paper, and medical equipment to Gaza.
They are naming it the MV Rachel Corrie.
Item #1: Keith Olbermann Is a Bigger Diva Than Aretha Franklin
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:06 AM
Good Morning Right-Wing Patriots and the Lesser Class of Left-Wing Troll,
MSDNC fluffer Donnie Deutsch made the mistake of including equally obnoxious MSDNC blowhard Keith Olbermann in a video montage of "angry media types." Soon afterward, MSDNC has removed Deutsch from his week long guest-hosting stint.
Keith Olbermann's personal assistant said he was unavailable for comment then excused herself to refill his toilet bowl with rose petals.
What Do You Expect? He's a Green
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 3:51 AM
Antanas Mockus has come a long way from pulling down his pants and mooning unruly students as a university president and later donning a red cape and yellow tights to pose as "Super Citizen" when he was mayor of Bogota.
He is actually somewhat up in the polls lately. Just pray to whatever god you worship that Arlen Specter and Barbara Boxer don't pick up on this campaign tactic.
To Quote From Victor Davis Hanson's Essay on Civility in the Age of Obama ...
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 3:11 AM
... would not do it justice. So, just go over to NRO and read it.
April 21, 2010
The Violent/Non-Violent Lie
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:34 PM
One of the more outrageous lies we're fed by our moonbat overlords is that leftists are peaceful and patriots prone to violence. The truth is the opposite:
If they can convince people that a left-wing maniac like Adolf Hitler was a conservative, maybe they can get someone to believe that moonbats are decent and civil, whereas normal Americans are bloodthirsty fiends. But even with control of the government, the media, and the education establishment, they've got their work cut out for them.
On a tip from Michelle.
Israel to Carry Water for the Free World against Iran
Posted by The MaryHunter at 6:18 PM
It may be up to Israel to save the West from the inevitable nuclear weaponization of Iran. There is every reason for them to believe this, of course.
Some senior Israeli officials say in interviews with the Wall Street Journal that they see signs Washington may be willing to live with a nuclear-armed Iran, an eventuality that Israel says it won't accept.
There is debate within the Israeli security community, however, as to whether Israel should obtain a blessing from the U.S. first before any preemptive strike.
"We don't have permission, and we don't need permission from the U.S.," says Ephraim Sneh, who served as deputy minister of defense under former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. But Maj. Gen. Giora Eiland, a former national security adviser, says Israel wouldn't jeopardize its relationship with the U.S. by launching a military strike against Iran without an American nod.
Question to Maj. Gen. Eiland: with the mistreatment and disrespect dished out to Israel already from President Obama, whatever sort of "relationship" exists between Israel and the U.S.? It seems mighty tenuous, at best. For example: since 2009, the Obama regime has refused every single military request made by Israel. And in March, Chairman Zero left visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sitting in a waiting room while he ran off to dine with family, and then refused the usual photo ops with this visiting head of state. Jocular Joe Biden also dissed Netanyahu while visiting Jerusalem (though some argue that he was 90 minutes late because he ran out of Depends and had to send for them on AirFarce Two).
The profound disrespect that Dear Leader has shown one of our two or so remaining closest allies should be interpreted by Israel as a pretty clear "we don't give an eff about you" by now. Surely, the self-preservation instinct so vital among Israelis will win out in the end, in spite of America. That's tragic, if you think about it. But mostly it's infuriating.
Hat tip: Big Government.
Sweden in 2010 Looks Like Germany in 1932
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 6:03 PM
Last year in Malmö, the number of hate crimes against Jews quadrupled in comparison with the preceding year. The grim figures are especially surprising given that, as is usual with hate crimes, many victims do not dare to report them out of fear that doing so might bring on further harassment.
As the same time that this is happening, the city's leading politician, Social Democrat Ilmar Reepalu, maintains that there have been no attacks on Jews and that if Jews wish to leave Malmö for Israel it is not the city's concern.
When the Jewish community arranged a peace demonstration in the town square, participants scattered when left-wing groups, together with Islamist groups armed with glass bottles, eggs, rockets, and Hamas flags, ran them off. The response from Malmö's city hall? None.
And when the Jewish funeral chapel was vandalized? Nothing.
And when burkas marked with the words "Zyklon B" were placed at the Jewish cemetery? Not a word.
And when the synagogue in Helsingborg was set on fire - and when Jewish merchants were harassed? Utter silence.
A dense odor of the 1930s hangs over the streets of Malmö.
On a related note, the Religion of Peace has threatened Matt Stone and Trey Parker with death for their "blasphemous" depiction of Mohammed in a bear suit on last week's episode of South Park, which, ironically, was about how Mohammed is the only figure in the world that can't be criticized .
Bristol Palin Harassed by the Classy Left
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 6:01 PM
Sarah Palin's daughter testified Wednesday against a former college student charged with breaking into her mother's e-mail account, saying she got anonymous phone calls and hundred of text messages after her cell phone number was posted online.
"There was one that really scared me," Bristol Palin testified in federal court. She said she was concerned when a bunch of boys called, claiming they were at her front door and needed to be let in.
Harassing phone calls to Sarah Palin's kids. Stay classy, progressive left. Stay classy.
ObamaCare Made Simple
Posted by Dave Blount at 1:35 PM
As Nasty Pelousy promised, now that they've passed the nearly 3,000-page assault on liberty known as ObamaCare, we can try to find out what's in it. This diagram should help us make sense of the first 20 pages:
Compliments of Jim M.
Obamaspeak: Fun for All Ages
Posted by The MaryHunter at 12:30 PM
Friday night is "Game Night" at the MaryHunter household. I can't wait for the week to end, so we can dig up some old Obama speeches on the web and play a few rounds with the kids.
Still Another Reason to Avoid Socialized Medicine
Posted by Dave Blount at 12:01 PM
If you've noticed that socialism is emasculating, you won't be surprised by this tale of terror from Britain's socialized healthcare:
A patient lost a testicle during an operation because the surgeon cut it off by mistake, a General Medical Council (GMC) hearing has been told.
Dr Sulieman Al Hourani was only supposed to cut out a cyst, but removed the whole right testicle instead.
The reason British doctors have names like Sulieman Al Hourani is that it isn't worth it to go through the rigors of medical school just to become a government slave. So they import doctors from the Third World. Fortunately, most don't try to car bomb airports.
Al Hourani is also accused of injecting himself with drugs meant for patients. But don't worry, he's back in Jordan now.
Sarah Prichard, counsel for the GMC, said the mistake was made as a nurse helping the surgeon turned her back to get a stitch.
When she turned around the testicle had been removed.
If they start cutting them both off under ObamaCare, we'll know it isn't a mistake, but the latest population control scheme by BHO's Science Czar John Holdren.
On a tip from Scott.
Bureaucrats Demand to Know Who Bought What at Amazon
Posted by Dave Blount at 11:10 AM
Here's an alarming indication of where the explosive growth of Big Government is heading: bureauweenies want to know what you've been buying at Amazon.
Amazon has filed suit against a US state agency that is demanding the online retailer turn over not only the sales records of nearly 50 million transactions since 2003, but also the names and addresses of the purchasers, along with details of exactly what they bought.
The North Carolina Department of Revenue (DOR) is investigating Amazon for compliance with sales tax law. All well and good, says Amazon in its filing in the US District Court of the Western District of Washington, but: "All [the DOR] needs to know is what items Amazon sold to North Carolina customers and what they paid, and Amazon has already provided that information to the DOR," the filing reads.
But the DOR wants more — it wants to know exactly what books and video individual North Carolinians bought. And Amazon isn't buying it: "If Amazon is forced to comply with this demand, the disclosure will invade the privacy and violate the First Amendment rights of Amazon and its customers on a massive scale."
Sales records are one thing, says Amazon. "But the DOR has no business seeking to uncover the identity of Amazon's customers who purchased expressive content, which makes up the majority of the nearly 50 million products sold to North Carolina residents during the audit period, let alone associating customers' names and addresses with the specific books, music, and video content that they have purchased during the past seven years."
Amazon also notes in the filing that: "The DOR's actions threaten to chill the exercise of customers' expressive choices and to cause Amazon customers not to purchase certain books, music, movies or other expressive material from Amazon that they might otherwise purchase if they did not fear disclosure of those choices to the government."
Information is power, especially in the Information Age. This is why seizing control of medical information is a prime feature of healthcare reform. Every detail of your life that your rulers can acquire is leverage over you.
Kudos to Amazon for putting up some resistance. If big companies showed enough sense to put their self-interest ahead of moonbattery more often, we'd stand a better chance of fending off the creeping totalitarianism known among liberals as Hope & Change.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Schoolteacher Called for Collecting Tea Partier Social Security Numbers
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:35 AM
Bumped and updated with more contact info
Fox News reports that Tea Partiers have taken the high road, not wanting middle school teacher Jason Levin to lose his job, but only to be subjected to humiliating liberal-style sensitivity training. Considering that this moonbat, who loudly denounces patriots as "racists, homophobes, and morons," apparently conducts his vile activities on the taxpayer's dime, you may feel differently.
Levin, a media lab teacher at Conestoga Middle School, was placed on leave last week pending the conclusion of an investigation by the Beaverton School District into whether he used school hours or computers to work on his anti-Tea Party website, and if his political activity was appropriate behavior for a teacher of 6th, 7th and 8th grade students.
He is also being investigated by his state's teachers licensing agency, which was inundated with complaints after his incendiary statements became front page news.
In recent weeks, Levin announced his intention to embarrass Tea Partiers by attending their rallies dressed as Adolf Hitler, carrying signs bearing racist, sexist and anti-gay epithets and acting as offensively as possible — anything, he said, short of throwing punches.
About what you would expect from a progressive infil-traitor. But there's more:
Levin called on his supporters to collect the Social Security numbers — among other personal identifying information — about as many Tea Party supporters as possible at the numerous rallies that took place last Thursday.
"The more data we can mine from the Tea Partiers, the more mayhem we can cause with it!!!!" he wrote.
Here's a little data that might come in useful to anyone tired of paying to have vermin like Levin brainwash their children:
Conestoga Middle School
Principal Zan Hess
12250 SW Conestoga Dr.
Beaverton, OR 97008
(503) 524-1345
zan_hess@beavton.k12.or.us
Contact info for Beaverton School Board members can be found here.
On tips from Edward.
GEICO Drops Obnoxious Moonbat D.C. Douglas
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:17 AM
Teacher Jason Levin isn't the only moonbat to let Tea Party Derangement Syndrome threaten his career:
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 21, 2010 — Los Angeles actor, D.C. Douglas, says he was dropped from the upcoming GEICO "Shocking News" campaign after a group of Tea Party members harassed him and the insurance giant over a private voicemail the actor left for FreedomWorks. Matt Kibbe, President and CEO of FreedomWorks, posted Mr. Douglas' cell phone number in a blog post on biggovernment.com, instructing readers to "Feel free to contact (him)… call his employer too. Let them know that you… are now in the market for car insurance." The next day, GEICO held auditions to replace Mr. Douglas' voice on the campaign.
The press release portrays Douglas as a put-upon victim, who couldn't help but speak out after choosing to believe the established lie that Tea Partiers directed racial slurs at leftist Congresscrumbs.
It's nice to see that there are limits to the moonbattery even at GEICO, which is a subsidiary of zillionaire Obamunist Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway, and which is participating in the attempt to silence Glenn Beck with a boycott.
Now Douglas wants revenge on FreedomWorks, but he's too cheap to lay out any money, so he's calling for left-wing lawyers who want to take the case pro bonehead.
To get an idea of what a classy guy Douglas is — and what establishment liberals like Anderson Cooper and Rep John Conyers mean when they call patriots "teabaggers" — check out this non-explicit yet disgusting image from his website, via Three Fingers of Politics.
Here's audio of the charming phone message that got Douglas in trouble.
Don't waste any tears on him; in the long run, his obnoxious contempt for normal Americans will no doubt advance his career in Hollywood.
On a tip from Oiao.
Dem Rep Raul Grijalva Calls for Boycott of His Own State
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:18 AM
Nothing could be more profoundly self-destructive than moonbattery, as shockingly demonstrated by Arizona Congresscrumb Raul Grijalva, who wants the rest of the country to boycott his own state to punish it for trying to do something about the illegal immigration crisis.
An Arizona congressman urged businesses on Tuesday to boycott his state if the governor signs into law a bill to make illegal immigration a state offense.
Rep. Raul Grijalva, a Democrat, said businesses need to punish the state if the bill becomes law as a way of making sure no other states follow suit.
"Do not do business with the state," Mr. Grijalva said at a press conference on the Capitol grounds in Washington.
Arizona's economy is already in the tank, thanks to unsustainable spending (initiated by the hapless dork now heading the DHS), and the collapse of the housing market (initiated by liberals forcing banks to make bad loans based on race). But Democrats could never cause enough damage to make them rest on their laurels and give us a chance to recover.
Meanwhile, Rasmussen reports on how the public feels about the law Grijalva wants us punished for:
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 70% of likely voters in Arizona approve of the legislation, while just 23% oppose it.
I guess screeching the term "racial profiling" over and over again on the local news isn't as persuasive as our treasonous liberal overlords had hoped.
Further bad news for Grijalva — and for Lettuce McCain:
Eighty-three percent (83%) of Arizona voters say a candidate's position on immigration is an important factor in how they will vote…
Arizona is doomed if something is not done to stop its colonization by Mexico's criminal class, and by now everyone knows that the quislings running the federal government are on the reconquistadors' side. We also know that McStain's deathbed conversion to border security is as phony as BHO's smile. Go J.D. Hayworth, who is running against McMaverick in the primary. Whether there's any hope in Grijalva's 7th District remains to be seen; demographically, it has already become essentially an extension of Mexico.
On tips from Czuch and Varla. Hat tip: PapaTodd.
The Queen of ACORN Addresses Her Subjects
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 8:28 AM
Addressing a gathering of "Young Social Democrats" at a New York High School. Long story short, she says socialism is great, and America in 2010 is worse than the South under (Democrat-imposed) Jim Crow, that "they are coming after after you, and they are going to be brutal and repressive" and "this is not rhetoric, or hyperbole."
We should get her on the Ed Schultz Show, because that would a laff riot!
Open Thread
Posted by Dave Blount at 7:49 AM
Gee, Why Hasn't Progressive Talk-Radio Caught On?
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 7:09 AM
The progressive left is really melting down. Wonder why that could be. They won the health care takeover. They won the stimulus. Their messiah won the Nobel Peace Prize. They have unchecked governmental power.
They don't seem to be too happy, though.
The Whack World of Chris Matthews
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 6:46 AM
To MSDNC fluffer Chrissy Matthews ("It's my job to help President Obama succeed"), satirically referring to the Obama Administration as a "regime" is "unacceptable."
But when squishy Republican moderates have to run against more conservative challengers, well that sounds like something out of the Soviet Union under Stalin!
(MATTHEWS) "Republican purge. Arlen Specter is out. John McCain, Charlie Crist and Robert Bennett are all being threatened on the right. Is this anyway to run a party or run it into the ground?
MATTHEWS: Coming up what happens to Republicans who don't march to the right wing tune? Well they're getting purged. This is Stalinesque, this stuff.
Yeah, because conservatives challenging moderates is exactly the same is starving 20,000,000 Ukrainians to death and shooting dissidents in the back of the head.
Chrissy claims to be concerned that these conservative challengers will drive people away from the Republican Party. Raise your hand if you really think Chrissy Matthews has the best interests of the Republican Party at heart.
I said "hand" not "finger."
On the Need for Comprehensive Doorman Reform
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 5:52 AM
Following up on the NYC Doorman's Strike, apparently catastrophe has been averted, and sophisticated New Yorkers will be spared the horrors of "sorting mail, screening visitors, hauling garbage out to the curb and operating elevators," --- things us idiot rubes in flyover country manage to do pretty well on our own.
William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection sees another opportunity to correct a social inequality here. Why do New Yorkers have doormen to do these menial tasks for them while the rest of America is forced to do it ourselves. By golly, we need Comprehensive Doorman Reform.
We could call such legislation The Apartment Protection and Affordable Door Person Act.
I see another advantage. Providing every American with a doorman would create jillions of jobs! We can write the law so that everyone over $250,000 a year is required to hire a doorman, and everyone else will have one provided by the Government. After all, if we're so rich we can afford to give everybody health care, everybody a college education, and have enough left over to bailout Wall Street and the unionized bureaucrats of New York, Illinois, and California... surely we can provide everyone in the USA with a doorman.
After all, according to the progressive left, a "right" is defined as "something someone else has that I want even if I haven't earned it," (e.g. health care coverage, tourism, same-sex marriage). Therefore, if enough people want personal doormen, it becomes a "right."
I'm going to name mine "Timmy."
Item #3: Greg Gutfeld Spanks Deepak Chopra's Son
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 5:31 AM
Deepak Chopra is a charlatan mystic who has a large following among celebrities and rich dingbats of the "spiritual but not religious" variety who are drawn by his promises of spiritual validation without all that Christian buzzkill about faith, charity, and striving to become a better person.
Deepak's son Gothan runs a Holistic Healing Center where rich sick people can come to get quack treatments. Greg Gutfeld of Fox News has denounced this quackery, earning the enmity of Gotham Chopra, who wrote him a letter, protesting Gutfeld's unfair and judgmental dismissal of the Chopra Center's quack medical treatment. Gutfeld publishes the letter, and his response on Big Hollywood, and it's teh awesome.
Read the whole thing, but here's a taste.
Goth, for ten years I worked in health mags, so I can smell new age clap trap a mile away. I know what catch phrases like "holistic" and "healing" mean. They mean "Pay me tons of cash for crap that does nothing but make you poor." And believe me I don't want to talk to anyone who's dumb enough to fork out thousands at the Chopra Center. Chances are they will show me pictures of their cat's aura, while drinking their own urine.
This is my personal favorite line:
Social disparity, injustice, intolerance! Jingoism! Someone's trying to impress ditzy co-eds at the coffee shop! Come on Goth, you're rich! You don't need those tired lines from the hippy handbook. Although I admit they do work on psych majors. Look, I might have taken you seriously if you hadn't bragged that you've been to 35 of the 50 United States. What are you, in seventh grade? You collecting magnets for your refrigerator? Besides, you've never been to America until you've been to Toronto.
Item #2: NH Liquor Commissioner Fired After DUI
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 5:22 AM
Once again, do as they say, not as they do.
Gov. John Lynch fired the state liquor commissioner on Monday after the commissioner was charged with driving while intoxicated.
The previous Liquor Commissioner is under investigation for corruption; and is receiving the worst punishment a bureaucrat can get --- fully-paid administrative leave.
Morning Briefs for Wednesday Item #1: In Which I Refer You to Another Blog
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:43 AM
Gd Morning Right-Wing Patriots and Left-Wing Whackadoodles,
Gateway Pundit has an all-you-can-eat buffet of leftist nuttery (and a couple of "Yea for our side" items) this morning, so I am just going to summarize it here. And you should thank me for it, like you should thank BO for his (snicker) "tax cuts."
Any way, we got left-wing haters shouting down Karl Rove because they hate him. (I don't like the guy either, but I don't obsess over it.)
We got Cardinal Roger Mahoney of Los Angeles --- America's answer to Rowan Williams --- comparing enforcement of our immigration laws to ... wait for it... Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. (He knows that his big ugly cathedral would be empty without illegal immigrants filling the pews.)
And in good news, the Democrat governor of Tennessee just signed a law that opts his state out of the abortion funding that Democrats claim isn't in the ObamaCare Law but really is.
And finally, my personal favorite, the future Mayor of Chicago farts on PBS.
You can see how I couldn't choose just one.
Things That Just Aren't Right
Posted by The MaryHunter at 3:00 AM
Of the small but growing number of conservative Hollywood celebs who are brave enough to speak out, Kelsey Grammer is certainly one of the most entertaining. Here's his pitch for the upcoming RightNetwork.com -- All That's Right With the World.
April 20, 2010
Cornel West: Illegal Aliens Have a Friend in the White House
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:04 PM
In a world rotted through with moonbattery, this is what passes for an Ivy League professor — Princeton's Cornel West performs his vaudeville act at an amnesty rally:
I hope everyone up front had umbrellas to keep the spittle away.
Via WND, on a tip from Dystopic PC.
Shrillary Defects
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:00 PM
It looks like even Shrillary has been swept up in the resurgence of patriotism that has risen to meet Comrade Obama's campaign to bring down our great country. Put some cotton in your ears — here she comes to the defense of Tea Partiers:
On a tip from AtomicLibSmasher.
Countermoonbattery Eruption in Albany
Posted by Dave Blount at 7:32 PM
Not even cold gloomy weather could dampen the spirits at the Tea Party in Albany last week:
I'm sure B. Hussein would look very handsome in a coat of tar and feathers.
On a tip from Salvatore.
San Fran Grand Nan's Crime Land
Posted by The MaryHunter at 5:59 PM
In San Francisco, the most freaking liberal big city in the United States, crime is down so far this year -- as long as you're not counting rapes or robberies or homicide.
The bottom line at Chief George Gascon's news conference today was that crime dropped 13 percent in the first quarter of this year compared with last year.
But turn off the slide projector and look at the rapes, robberies and homicides not featured on the big screen. All were higher in the first three months of 2010 than during the same time last year.
Rape was up 33 percent, from 33 incidents last year to 44 this year. Robbery was up 13 percent, from 744 to 844. Homicides were up 9 percent, from 11 to 12.
Maybe if Nancy Pelosi retired from Congress she could help Chief Gascon on those nasty numbers by just taking over the city crime stats division and doing what she does best: brazenly lie and distort data.
Hat tip: Rush.
Bernie Goldberg Lays Into Jon Stewart
Posted by Dave Blount at 5:54 PM
Few moonbats are more annoying than the reigning master of the "aren't-I-cute" smirk, Jonathan Leibowitz, aka Jon Stewart — so it was a pleasure to watch Bernie Goldberg blow gaping holes in his tiresome shtick:
So that's why liberal elite phonies like Leibowitz so often have mouths like toilets. They think it makes them "edgy." Oops, I generalized.
On a tip from Incitatus. Hat tip: NewsBusters.
Allen West Kicks Away the Snippy Chihuahuas
Posted by Dave Blount at 4:06 PM
Eat this, moonbat ankle-biters:
After the November tide sweeps him into office, the liberal establishment is really going to hate countermoonbat Congressman Allen West. He won't let them pretend it's about race, when the issue is clearly liberty versus tyranny.
On a tip from Nancz.
Goldman Sachs Much Bigger Donor to Obama Than Enron Was to Bush
Posted by Dave Blount at 1:36 PM
As we watch the corporatist kabuki theater play out between Comrade Obama and his crony capitalist financiers at Goldman Sachs, there is one fact everyone ought to keep in mind:
Campaign contributions from Goldman Sachs employees to President Obama are nearly seven times as much as President Bush received from Enron workers, according to numbers on OpenSecrets.org.
When you take into account the fortunes Goldman Sachs heaped upon BHO's current underling Shrillary, who had been the favorite to get the nomination,
It would be fair to say that the total amount the Obama administration has received from those affiliated with Goldman Sachs is ten times that of what Bush received from Enron.
Yet W's contributions from Enron were supposedly a scandal.
When the phony song and dance of the coordinated White House/SEC/DNC/liberal media attack on this bloated bailout beneficiary is over, "finance reform" will have given us another hard shove toward socialism, Goldman Sucks will have even more money, B. Hussein will have even more power, and Americans will have even less of the freedom we need if we're ever to climb out of the hole our corrupt and authoritarian rulers are digging.
On a tip from J.
Activist Church Pushes GM Cars
Posted by Dave Blount at 12:36 PM
Someone call the ACLU — Government Motors has breached the sacred wall between Church and State:
In what organizers said was the first event of its kind in the area, Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit teamed up Sunday with GM and the GM Minority Dealers Association to offer churchgoers a chance to test drive more than a dozen cars.
As congregants left the northwest side church at 1 p.m., Pastor Charles Adams said the idea of Ride and Drive was to demonstrate GM's commitment to minority causes, its employment of thousands of local African Americans and to encourage churchgoers to buy a new GM car.
"Americans now must support American-made products," Adams said outside the church with Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, a longtime member. "We are encouraging our church members to take care of their community by buying locally. This is an ethical purpose that is beyond profit."
After a cruise in a shiny maroon 2010 Chevy Camaro, Indira Murray was all smiles.
"It's a beautiful car," the 38-year-old Detroit resident said. "I love it. When I get a job, I might get one."
Why wait to get a job? Hopey Change beats employment anytime. Remember the race-based loans that allowed people who could not afford houses to buy them anyway? They were a product of the Community Reinvestment Act, which the world's most famous community activist used to club banks into making bad loans when he worked as a lawyer for ACORN. Now that this same community activist is essentially CEO of GM, look for its cars to get a whole lot more affordable for his base. As with the collapsed housing market caused by CRA, the rest of us will pick up the tab.
On a tip from Eric.
Open Thread
Posted by Dave Blount at 11:23 AM
Feds May Go After Salt
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:36 AM
The grotesque excesses of nanny state authoritarianism on display in petty tyrant fiefdoms like Michael Bloomberg's New York are only a foretaste of what we'll all have to live under if moonbattery is not turned back.
The Food and Drug Administration says it will consider a new call Tuesday to force food makers to gradually cut the salt hidden inside their products … the prestigious Institute of Medicine said the food industry hasn't done enough to voluntarily cut back. Echoing earlier calls from the American Medical Association and other health groups, the IOM urged the government to set maximum sodium levels for different foods in a stepped rollback — so that eventually, the average consumption would drop by about half a teaspoon.
That's about one third our average intake. The plan is to impose a gradual reduction so that we won't notice that our food doesn't taste good anymore— a perfect metaphor for the creeping totalitarianism that calls itself liberalism.
The FDA hasn't decided whether to regulate sodium levels, but "no options are off the table," said spokeswoman Meghan Scott.
Supposedly suppressing salt will make the minority with high blood pressure less likely to suffer the sort of health problems that are also caused by overweight and inactivity. If the government can tell you how much salt you can eat, it can also tell you how much you can weigh and how many jumping jacks you need to do in front of your Telescreen every morning.
On a tip from Franco. Hat tip: The Blogprof.
Busted for Driving Drunk in Barbie Car
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:00 AM
Under socialism, there's no point to anything and nothing much to do but get drunk and goof around, but don't try operating a 4-mph electric Barbie car in front of your house while you're under the influence in the absurd nanny state dystopia known as Airstrip One, or you'll end up busted, like 40-year-old Paul Hutton of Clacton-on-Sea. Details of the case:
• Hutton was found to be twice the legal limit for blood alcohol content
• The police pulled him over while he was driving the car
• Upon laying down the law, the judge in question said, ""The vehicle is not even capable of doing the speed of a mobility scooter and could be outrun by a pedestrian"
• Hutton on the subject: "Originally, it was a pink Barbie car. I put larger wheels on it, but it's not fast." He has also admitted to being "a complete twit"
• The car, naturally, was pink; Hutton had been working on it as part of a project with one of his sons
• The car was impounded by the police, but Hutton wants it back.
On a tip from Mark L.
Moonbat Anti-Macho Manifesto
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:27 AM
Funny thing about politics: you can be a conservative and be all woman, but how can you be a moonbat and be any kind of man? Germany's Green Party offers a glimpse of what progressives think you should be instead:
A new manifesto from the German Green Party aims to banish macho men for good. … "We no longer need to be macho!" is the title of their manifesto which deals with "equality and male feminism."
Male feminism. This is why liberals want us to be more like Europe.
The signatories include several Green politicians from the European parliament, the German Bundestag as well as local Green leaders. "We no longer want to be macho," it declares, "we want to be people. You are not born a man, you are turned into one."
The manifesto calls on men to break out of traditional gender roles. Apparently "equality" will only be achieved when we've all embraced our inner Alan Alda.
But being a wimp isn't enough; the progressive she-man of the future must be a useless wimp.
"We want to live differently!" writes [Sven] Lehmann, a senior member of the North Rhine-Westphalia branch of the party, and the European parliamentarian Albrecht. They appeal for a slower pace of life, less focus on profit and more health consciousness. They want to start holding "Boys' Days and gender-sensitive career-guidance sessions."
"Interest in mechanical engineering is not something we are born with," they say.
As opposed to gender oppression studies, which moonbats of all genders find inherently worthwhile.
Once again we see that liberals won't be content to destroy our liberty and our prosperity. They want to destroy everything else that makes us worthy of respect.
On tips from J and Scott. Hat tips: Interested-Participant, Jawa Report.
7 Million Jobs Worth of Obama Funny Math
Posted by The MaryHunter at 8:59 AM
Say it ain't so: The Barack Obama White House, caught making funny with jobs counts again? A little known fact about math is that you can always make any "change" look like a change for the better if you just tweak your original baseline estimates and pretend no one will notice. Observe:
[T]o justify the Administration's current claim of 2.8 million jobs "created or saved" by stimulus, they need to also claim that without that stimulus there would be only 126.9 million jobs. That's exactly what they do, displayed as the "baseline projection" level in the graphic below from an April 14, 2010 report:
However, in their original January 2009 report used to justify Porkulus, they claimed that, with no Porkulus bill, there would be 133.9 million jobs. How did they come out with a net 2.8 million stimulus jobs? Easy: revisionism.
Step 1: How many jobs does the Administration currently claim there would be, without stimulus?
129.7 million Current number of U.S. jobs
- 2.8 million Jobs currently claimed to be "created or saved"
126.9 million Jobs the Administration currently claims there would be without stimulus
Step 2: How does that compare with the number of jobs the Administration used to say there would be without stimulus?
133.9 million January 2009 projection of jobs without stimulus
- 126.9 million Current claim of jobs without stimulus
= 7 million Jobs removed from the Administration "baseline" to justify their latest stimulus job creation claims
This is par for the course if you belong to a regime of socialist liars intent on doing whatever it takes to convince the American people that your extremist policies are actually helping create jobs in this dismal economy.
Grotesquely Overpaid Illinois Teachers Demand Tax Hikes
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:38 AM
The staggeringly greedy criminal racket known as public education has gotten so far out of control in the state that gave us Comrade Obama that taxpayers are on the hook for $1 BILLION in pension liability for just the top 100 educrats. But at least the teachers unions have figured out how to pay for it all — by raising taxes, of course. That's why they're taking a day off from telling children about the evils of economic freedom tomorrow so they can be bused into Springfield to demand the government confiscate more of other people's money to keep their platinum-plated pensions afloat.
Up to 15,000 citizen lobbyists [i.e., union members] are expected to descend on the Capitol on Wednesday to rally for a tax increase to help fix the state's crippling budget. …
Roughly 2,000 of the participants will be teachers representing the Illinois Federation of Teachers, spokesman David Comerford said. …
The group making its way to the Capitol is rallying behind House Bill 174, a controversial measure that would increase the individual income tax rate and expand the state's sales tax base.
Unions are infamous for being so pathologically greedy that they will eat everything in sight, even if it means bankrupting everyone, themselves included. But surely Illinois' leadership recognizes that they can't keep hiking taxes indefinitely. Then again…
Many Democrats, however, are calling for the tax increase, including Gov. Pat Quinn, who wants a 33 percent income tax increase to help fund proposed education cuts.
"We cannot cut ourselves out of a $13 billion budget deficit," said state Rep. Pat Verschoore, D-Milan. "I do believe we need to raise taxes. I do believe, though, there should be sunset because things are going to get better."
Not if our rulers keep raising taxes during a recession, they aren't. But liberals will counter that if you don't like being reduced to slave status so that useless educrats can live like movie stars, you don't care about the children.
On a tip from Air2air.
Golfer in Chief
Posted by The MaryHunter at 7:17 AM
Let's cut Dear Leader a little slack on this one, shall we? So what if our esteemed president chose to take those suspended flights due to the Icelandic volcano as an opportunity to hit the links for the 32nd time in his presidency? Besides, feigning interest in the well-being of former Eastern European countries is so jejune. They're so much more useful as pawns to offer up to Moscow, as the United States kowtows its way into oblivion as an economic and military superpower.
Working on manning up that swing is probably the one thing with which Chairman Zero should be spending even more time. As observed by a Washington Examiner OpEd writer:
My regular foursome gives Obama a double bogey on policy but is happy to see him on the links. They point to the moral lessons offered by the royal and ancient game.
As former California Gov. George Deukmejian observed, "The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie."
Another positive: the longer Obama is hacking away at balls, the less he's hacking away at the underpinnings of our nation.
Item #3: Earthquakes Are Caused by Sluts
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 5:02 AM
A senior Iranian Islamic cleric has issued a decree stating that earthquakes are caused by promiscuous women.
"Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes," Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media.
"What can we do to avoid being buried under the rubble?" Sedighi asked during a prayer sermon Friday. "There is no other solution but to take refuge in religion and to adapt our lives to Islam's moral codes."
Remember, Iran's Government is run by Senior Muslim Clerics whom Chairman Zero's Regime believes are completely sane, responsible people who can be trusted with nuclear weapons and should be negotiated with as though they were civilized.
Besides which, the notion that promiscuous women cause Earthquakes is silly. Everyone knows earthquakes are caused by Global Warming.
Item #2: The NY Times, Ever In Touch With the Concerns of Middle Class America
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:54 AM
It has been nearly two decades since New Yorkers faced their last doorman strike, but as the deadline for a new contract for building workers approached, the questions being posed throughout the city remained largely unchanged on Sunday.
Who will safeguard my apartment as I sleep? Greet my children when they come home from school? Accept deliveries? Clean the hallways? Sort the mail? Operate the elevator? And who, for goodness sake, will let the cleaning lady in?
Just don't call them elitists. They don't like that.
Morning Briefs for Tuesday Item #1: Oh, the Ironing
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:39 AM
Salt Lake City's mayor addressed a "Bike Summit" in support of making his city more "Bike-friendly" because, you know, bikes are all environmental and stuff.
His bike was stolen at the event.
Polishing Flipper
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:22 AM
Some guy wrote a book about his love affair with a dolphin back in the 1970s (the pre-Obama highwater mark of moonbat culture in America). At one time, it would have shocked me. Now, it just makes me wonder how far away we are from moonbats demanding inter-species marriage rights. After all, as the troll who labels himself "stupidity from the shallow end of the gene pool" put it, we're nothing but animals anyway. So, what's the big deal?
When *They* Do It, It's OK, Though
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 2:32 AM
Chairman Zero's mainstream media fluffers — especially Chris Matthews who is on his seventh or eighth pair or presidential knee-pads — were apoplectic when Rush Limbaugh began referring to "the Obama Regime."
Chris Matthews appeared deeply troubled by the word. "I've never seen language like this in the American press," he said, "referring to an elected representative government, elected in a totally fair, democratic, American election — we will have another one in November, we'll have another one for president in a couple years — fair, free, and wonderful democracy we have in this country…. We know that word, 'regime.' It was used by George Bush, 'regime change.' You go to war with regimes. Regimes are tyrannies. They're juntas. They're military coups. The use of the word 'regime' in American political parlance is unacceptable.
Glenn Beck did a little fact-checking. How often did the press refer to "the Bush Regime?" Oh, only somewhere north of 6,000 times.
 
"The term "regime" was used 6,500 times to refer to the Bush Administration since January 20, 2001. The host (Joe Klein) was talking to (Chris Matthews) used the term "regime" to describe Bush and Heilemann himself used regime to describe the Obama Administration at least four times. So, I'm trying to figure out how they can use the word regime and it's not a problem and Rush uses it."
Byron York did a count and claims the actual number is 6,729.
The media seem to be playing this childish little game that no one ever criticized a president until Obama was elected and the only people that play hardball politics are Republicans. The detachment from reality is phenomenal, but that's what happens when you stop being a news organization and start being a PR firm for the Democrat party; a party that is only concerned about "civility" when they are the ones in power.
April 19, 2010
Rep. John Conyers Hurls Vulgar Insult at Patriots
Posted by Dave Blount at 7:50 PM
Comrade Obama, who recently smirked that he is "amused" by the hundreds of thousands who have protested in outrage at what he is doing to our country, isn't the only one of our rulers who has a low opinion of us. Here the corrupt Chairman of House Judiciary Committee John Conyers repeatedly uses an extremely vulgar homosexual epithet while denouncing Tea Partiers:
In a display of hypocrisy so far over the top you can hardly believe it isn't some kind of parody, Conyers accuses "teabaggers" of using profanity. Then he echoes a certain Marxist punk's sentiments that we ought to be grateful for the boot Big Government has been grinding in our faces.
We are subjected to this abuse by a conspicuously cognitively challenged Congresscrumb who has admitted that he doesn't bother to read the bills he votes into law because he wouldn't understand them anyway.
A kakistocracy is bad enough. We live under an insolent kakistocracy.
Via Breitbart.tv, on a tip from Milton.
2nd Amendment March, Washington DC
Posted by The MaryHunter at 7:20 PM
Monday April 19th saw yet another march on Washington, this time by proud patriots petitioning our elected officials for respect of the Second Amendment and against anti-gun legislation.
These pictures are courtesy of Patriot Tim, who has done double duty this week between this and the DC Tea Party event.
For more information, visit the Second Amendment March website.
Get Used to Being Losers
Posted by Dave Blount at 4:41 PM
That's what the personification of America's self-imposed decline has to say to his subjects:
Quoth the Moonbat Messiah:
American consumers are just not going to be in the same position and the American government is not going to be in the same position that it's been in over the last several years.
That is, we won't be in a position to buy so many imports. Our position will be on our knees begging the Chicoms to buy more of our debt. Unless patriots manage to take control of the country and reverse its current course.
Via Gateway Pundit, on tips from J and Milton.
Open Thread
Posted by Dave Blount at 3:35 PM
Yet Another Socialized Medicine Horror Story
Posted by Dave Blount at 2:26 PM
Once again, Airstrip One illustrates what we have to look forward to as petty tyrant bureaucrats consolidate control of our healthcare industry:
A woman with crippling back pain who has been waiting months for an operation was removed from the NHS waiting list because she had a private consultation.
Breast cancer survivor Jenny Whitehead was told by her NHS trust in December last year that she would have to wait five months before she could see an orthopaedic surgeon after a scan revealed a cyst on her spine.
Having suffered back pain since 2008 and unable to face months of waiting in pain, she decided to pay £250 for a private session with the same doctor the following week.
He assured the 64-year- old retired museum assistant that he would add her to his NHS waiting list for an operation to have the growth removed.
But she was shocked when Bradford and Airedale NHS Trust told her she had been taken off the waiting list because her private consultation disqualified her from any further NHS treatment under that referral.
The trust said she must pay for the £10,000 surgery herself, or go back to her GP for another referral to the same surgeon on the NHS, and face a further 18-week wait for an appointment.
This after, like all British subjects, she has already paid dearly for her healthcare through extravagant taxation.
There is a reason our forefathers were willing to risk everything to resist tyranny. Living under it is no fun. Neither is dying under it, as we'll learn when the healthcare rationing begins.
On a tip from Lyle.
Heritage Foundation: No Way Does ObamaCare Have Our Fingerprints
Posted by The MaryHunter at 1:30 PM
Talk about President Audacity: Dear Leader Obama, invoking a conservative think tank to promote ObamaCare? The Heritage Foundation spoke out in a Washington Post OpEd against Chairman Zero's claim to have borrowed ideas from them that were either never theirs in the first place, or that were so dated and taken out of context as to be comical.
Think tank analysts usually brim with pride when the president of the United States goes around claiming that his policies are based on their work. But when President Obama tries to sell his health-care law as a moderate approach that borrows ideas developed by the Heritage Foundation, we get incensed.
The Obama health-care law "builds" on the Heritage health reform model only in the sense that, say, a double-quarter-pounder with cheese "builds" on the idea of a garden salad. Both have lettuce and tomato and may be called food, but the similarities end there.
This is why we at the Heritage Foundation respectfully ask President Obama and his acolytes to stop misrepresenting our research. We think this massive health law is abominable and should be repealed. And until Congress repeals it, lawmakers should starve this monstrosity of taxpayer funds.
Pretty soon, Obama will not just ask the Tea Partiers to thank him, but will convince a portion of the electorate that he actually has incorporated some Tea Party Revolt ideas into his latest policy scheme.
Moonbat Astroturf
Posted by Dave Blount at 12:48 PM
As Ann Coulter has observed, you can easily determine what Democrats are furtively up to — it's whatever they're accusing patriots of doing. When the Tea Party phenomenon first began to explode, Nasty Pelousy and others denounced it as astroturf — an astonishing lie, considering that there has never been a more genuine mass grassroots movement. You could only conclude that our moonbat rulers would soon be caught astroturfing themselves. Sure enough:
Writing on January 15, 2010, Glenn Greenwald at Salon noted Barack Obama's new head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Cass Sunstein, had championed creating fake websites and using outside 501(c)(3) interest groups to act as alleged independent champions of government policy and to "cognitively infiltrate" opposition websites, etc.
In other words, Cass Sunstein has favored the government using outside parties as government propaganda agents to paint their opposition as fringe and undermine their credibility. Kind of like what has been happening with the tea party movement — lots of SEIU members pretending to be tea party activists causing violence in front of TV cameras.
Sunstein advocates that the Government's stealth infiltration should be accomplished by sending covert agents into "chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups." He also proposes that the Government make secret payments to so-called "independent" credible voices to bolster the Government's messaging
Considering Sustein's recommendations, it is not far removed to speculate the Obama administration is behind a new anti-tea party website called The Other 95, which defends the government from tea party criticisms and attacks the tea party movement as fringe.
The website purports to be authentically grassroots, though one must wonder when the last time was any grassroots activist took the time to defend the government.
Unsurprisingly, the site's designer is affiliated with Moveon.org, which is bankrolled by ultra-left astroturf magnate George Soros.
Ignorance is strength. Freedom is slavery. Tea Parties are astroturf. Obamunism is genuine.
On a tip from J.
How Slick Willie Exploited Oklahoma City
Posted by Dave Blount at 11:51 AM
When the obamunist lackeys who run the media attempt to paint Tea Partiers as potentially violent — despite the only violence coming from the left — they are implementing a strategy Dick Morris devised for their moral paragon Bill Clinton in the immediate aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing:
Morris told Clinton that "direct accusations" of extremism wouldn't work because the Republicans were not, in fact, extremists. Rather, Morris recommended what he called the "ricochet theory." Clinton would "stimulate national concern over extremism and terror," and then, "when issue is at top of national agenda, suspicion naturally gravitates to Republicans." As that happened, Morris recommended, Clinton would use his executive authority to impose "intrusive" measures against so-called extremist groups. Clinton would explain that such intrusive measures were necessary to prevent future violence, knowing that his actions would, Morris wrote, "provoke outrage by extremist groups who will write their local Republican congressmen." Then, if members of Congress complained, that would "link right-wing of the party to extremist groups." The net effect, Morris concluded, would be "self-inflicted linkage between [GOP] and extremists."
Clinton's proposals — for example, new limits on firearms and some explosives that were opposed by the National Rifle Association — had "an underlying political purpose," Morris wrote…
The updated version makes use of Comrade Obama's trump card, his skin color. This is why Dem Congresscrumbs attack their opposition by telling lies about having been called the forbidden N-word, why the farcical Department of Homeland Security is watching vets instead of Muslims, and why the Second Amendment will be coming under renewed fire.
Remember when the black guy showed up with an AR-15 at a Phoenix Tea Party, and the statist liars at MSNBC cropped out his skin color while screeching about racist violence? All part of the unfolding strategy.
On a tip from Edward.
LGF Commenter Calls for Tea Partiers to Be Shot
Posted by Dave Blount at 11:07 AM
Pony-tailed moonbat Charleen Johnson is known for policing the comments section of his dying blog Little Green Footballs with an iron fist, while showering sanctimonious denunciations upon over-the-top comments cherry-picked from conservative sites. But you can get away with quite a lot at LGF, provided you adopt the appropriate point of view. Via the Diary of Daedalus:
If bloodthirsty excesses like this were found on patriots' blogs, the media really would go ape.
Hat tip: Weasel Zippers, on a tip from Leslie.
Cartoonish Moonbat Fakery at Albany Tea Party
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:25 AM
Because leftists are fundamentally wrong at the most basic level, they can only advance their cause through coercion and subterfuge. Not all of the fakery is as sophisticated as Chairman Zero's crusade against Goldman Sachs. For example, at last week's Tea Party in Albany, NY, a moonbat was passing out socialist propaganda crudely altered to look like it had been produced by patriots (click for full size):
On the lower right, we see that this is supposedly "A Tea Party USA Statement." Anyone ever heard of that outfit? But lower down and to the left it reads, "Printed by SP USA National Office Staff." We know who they are.
Here's what the original document looked like, before the infil-traitor doctored it:
Nassau TEA Party comments:
Amateurish and incredibly crude, one wonders how they could have expected to fool anyone.
But then, I thought the same thing about the liberal media's campaign to pass off an ultra-left community organizer as an acceptable presidential candidate.
Hat tip: Gateway Pundit, on a tip from J.
Happy Patriot's Day
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:58 AM
Normally I would say that government drones already have enough excuses to loaf, but here's a national holiday I can get behind:
The founder of a beer named after an American Revolutionary hero is pushing for Patriot's Day to become a national holiday.
Jim Koch, founder and owner of the Boston Beer Co., the maker of Sam Adams, says he is launching a personal campaign and starting a petition to begin a movement for the national holiday.
Koch said if Patriot's Day was a national holiday, more Americans would understand the nation's "revolutionary spirit" and how much the Founder Fathers risked their lives.
It's painful to remember their heroism, considering that we've been allowing the worst among us to flush away everything the Founding Fathers fought to establish. But if we ever forget, the moonbats win.
Hat tip: Jules Crittenden.
Pelosi Fundraiser: More Security than Guests
Posted by The MaryHunter at 9:30 AM
Those crazy Floridian liberals, even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is afraid of them. At a recent Palm Beach event, San Fran Grand Nan's security entourage at Democrat fundraiser George Cloutier's garden party included
a security detail 12 strong, mostly US Capitol Police.
There were four additional Palm Beach cops. And two sheriff's deputies.
Oh, yes! Two police boats in the Atlantic Ocean, across the street from Cloutier's house.
She managed to squeeze some $100,000 out of the eighteen actual guests, before they were pummeled into submission by the authorities due to their reckless liberal moonbat behavior.
Hat tip: Red County.
N.B.: In deference to readers who often require eye bleach following unannounced Pelosi pix, we have refrained from displaying her wet t-shirt shot smuggled out of the party.
Green Jobs FAIL
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 9:24 AM
The Obamunist must have figured they needed a bubble to lift the economy out of permanent recession. Bill Clinton's economy was lifted by the Tech Bubble, Bush's by the Housing Bubble. So, the Central Planners of Obamunism's five-year plan (one of whom is Jeffrey Immelt, whose company is the world's largest producer of wind turbines) thought that they could order a "Green Jobs" Bubble to lift the economy.
AnnaLee Saxenian, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies regional technology clusters, says the nationwide push could produce plenty of service jobs and some manufacturing jobs, but it's unlikely to replace the millions lost in autos and steel and semiconductors to overseas producers. "People are jumping on a bandwagon," she says. "Washington needs something to sell. It can't be a panacea for everyone."
So far, this has failed, and I think I can figure out why.
The Tech Bubble succeeded because, for the most part, it was driven by market developments in technology... although the two trillion spent because of the Y2K scare was definitely a factor. (My brother is an electrician, and he was working overtime in 1999 helping people install emergency generators because they thought the lights would go out when the computers thought it was 1900 and not 2000.) Clinton was also helped out by a global oil glut that drove petroleum prices to record lows, and by a Republican congress that restrained spending and forced his administration to be more moderate and pro-business than it otherwise would have been.
The Real Estate Bubble did, in large part, result from Government policies. Specifically, the Government socialized the risk of making bad mortgage decisions and privatized the rewards of those risks. This naturally led to an over-inflated market that collapsed under its own weight, helped along by a massive global spike in petroleum prices. It was worsened by the massive expansion of private debt as consumers treated their home equity like an ATM machine.
Chairman Zero's Regime is trying to repeat the worst excesses of the Bush Era policies while learning none of its lessons. They are replacing a massive expansion of private debt with a massive expansion of public debt. And they are subsidizing "green jobs" through grants and subsidies that socialize the costs and privatize the benefits of green energy, thus distorting the market.
We may be on the verge of a revolution in bio-fuels or some other green technology. If we are, then this Government spending is a waste of resources because the market will move people to green technology. If we are not, then this Government is wasting resources because the costs of implementing green technology through Government fiat outweighs the benefits; elsewise, the market would move people to green technology anyway.
Confirmed: Race-Baiting Congresscreeps Lied
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:14 AM
Remember when Democrat Congresscritters tried to throw up a smoke screen by claiming that patriots had assailed them with the unspeakable "N-word" after they rammed through government seizure of the healthcare industry? Since none of the many video cameras on hand recorded the incident, including the one operated by Jesse Jackson Jr., many were skeptical. It was reported that Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC) was walking with Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), and heard him subjected to the forbidden word. But now Shuler denies it.
Last I heard, Cleaver, John Lewis (D-GA), Andre Carson (D-IN) are sticking by their story that the N-word was inflicted upon them "at least 15 times." But no one has cashed in on Andrew Breitbart's offer to donate $100,000 to the United Negro College Fund if anyone can prove it.
What does it say about the character of our moonbat overlords that they would indulge in this sort of lie?
On a tip from Lunatic Cringe Radio.
Big Government Knifes Goldman Sachs in the Back
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:53 AM
There is danger in dealing with lowlife criminals, as the Obama-bankrolling crony capitalists at Goldman Sachs are finding out the hard way. The firm was at the top of the list of Obama donors, and was soon rewarded with mountains of our money during the "bailout" looting spree. But next on the hit list for nationalization is the financial sector, and Chairman Zero's old Wall Street friends have become expendable. A campaign coordinated between the White House, the SEC, and Big Media has been launched to bring down these capitalist exploiters of the proletariat.
As the Wall Street Journal makes clear, the SEC's case against Goldman Sachs is absurd. It's all about politics…
The SEC charges conveniently arrive on the brink of the Senate debate over financial reform, and its supporters are already using the case to grease the bill's passage. "I'm pleased that the Obama Administration is using all of the tools in its arsenal to bring accountability to Wall Street and standing up for homeowners and small businesses across America," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Friday about the SEC case. "This is also why we need to pass strong Wall Street reform this year." Of course, this case matters to homeowners not at all.
It does matter to the radical statists running the government, who will shove us another major step toward what used to be called communism by seizing control of the financial sector in the name of "reform."
FamousDC details the alarming extent of coordination between Democrats, the SEC, and the liberal establishment media in this latest attack on economic liberty.
Let this be a lesson to others corrupt enough to collude with the thugs in Washington. Play with fire, you will get burned.
On tips from Varla and J. Hat tip: RedState.
Willie Nelson: Drug User, Tax Evader, 9-11 Troofer
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 8:24 AM
He's just a sexual abuse of a minor away from being the quintessential progressive social Democrat.
Willie's lookin' a lot like Arafat these days, isn't he?
80% of Americans Are Seditious Traitors
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 8:04 AM
According to a poll by the left-wing Pew Research Center, 80% of Americans don't trust our Government, the highest level ever.
Nearly 80 percent of Americans say they do not trust the U.S. government to do what is right, expressing the highest level of distrust in Washington in half a century, according to a public opinion survey.
Only 22 percent of Americans say they trust the government "just about always" or "most of the time," according to the Pew Research Center survey released on Sunday.
Weird, the progressives tell me that Government (as long as it is run by Democrats) is infallible and should be entrusted completely to run the health care, energy, education, and financial sectors of the economy, and anyone who doesn't think so is an atavistic racist tea-bagger.
Hat Tip: Ace.
Liberal Columnist Laments the Lack of RINO Wimps
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 8:04 AM
Jacob Weisberg at Slate laments that "reasonable Republicans" are a "dying breed." And by "reasonable Republicans," he means Republicans willing to roll-over for tax increases, massive deficit spending, amnesty, unilateral disarmament, cap and trade, and a metastasizing welfare state.
Though occasionally spotted on the rocky shoals of Maine's Penobscot Bay and in beach houses up and down the California coast, they now rarely emerge from the wilderness. During the health care battle, President Obama was unable to find a single Responsible Republican to serve as a mascot. There continue to be rumors of the Double R's return around issues such as immigration, financial reform, and climate change. Yet we have now gone several years without a confirmed sighting.
He blames "hyperpartisanship" on opposition to HillaryCare back in 1994. And, of course, Democrats never engage in hyperpartisanship or attack the president or his policies for purely political reasons.
Open Thread
Posted by Dave Blount at 7:25 AM
Global Warming Breaks Out in UK, Northern Europe
Posted by The MaryHunter at 7:00 AM
Or, that's what the enviro-kooks would have you believe -- but because it is actually cooling. However, the why is something the kooks would rather you didn't know.
After enduring the coldest winter for 30 years, you might have been hoping for some respite from the cold weather.
However, scientists are now warning that Britain can expect to endure a series of extreme winters - the like of which have not seen for more than 300 years.
Researchers have found that low solar activity - marked by a decrease in the sun's magnetic field - influences the weather conditions across northern Europe.
According to Mike Lockwood, one of the main researchers, the latest winter marks the start of a Maunder minimum - when solar activity falls for a prolonged time.
This, of course, is just what sensible climatologists have been trying to say for years: that the sun has far more of an effect on the earth's climate than anything else. And it's just what the hoax-perpetrating global warmists climate change-ists have been trying to suppress, along with other things like real temperature data and incriminating emails. They will continue to perpetuate their hockey sticks in textbooks and dismiss "normal" climate fluctuations related to solar activity as poppycock, because it does not fit with their economy-crushing ends.
Hat tip: Common Cents, from a sunny tip from firewifem.
How Many Illegals Does It Take to Ruin Someone's Day Bigtime?
Posted by The MaryHunter at 6:15 AM
Only an extremely careful observer could know for sure. And none of them is limping visibly, that's what's really amazing. Who knows about the victims in the blue car.
Hat tip: iOwnTheWorld.
Item #3: Clash of the Stupids
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 6:09 AM
Good Morning Right-Wing Patriots, Good Morning Left-Wing Freedom-Haters,
A bunch of white supremacists and a bunch of hippies clashed outside Los Angeles City Hall last week in what one policeman described as "one group of racists protesting another group of racists." Five people were arrested for assault and for throwing rocks and bottles at the police, all of them on the hippie side of the equation.
Item #2: Hell, Handbasket, Some Assembly Required
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 5:56 AM
The hottest play in Toronto currently is one titled, My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding.
"The mother feels lost in life, wrestling with her identity. A new job brings new opportunities and with it a chance to truly find herself … discovering her sexuality, rediscovering her faith, and eventually coming out to her teenage son, ex-husband and homophobic Jewish mother."
I guess I am supposed to be shocked and appalled by this. "Lesbians! Wiccans! and Jews! Oh, my!" But my actual response is closer to … Huh, another attempt by the prog theater community to shock me. BOR-ING.
And all I need to do to shock and appall one of them is whip out my cellphone. "See this cover. Genuine Canadian baby seal skin. Neat, huh?"
Meanwhile, film critics — who love independent films as long as they're about gay cowboys eating pudding — are going out of their way to ignore an independent film about the Christian faith of a young boy with cancer; because, you know, it's inspirational and stuff. And there's people praying! People linking hands and praying … now there's something that would shock a progressive audience. "Christians and prayers and faith! Oh my!"
Morning Briefs for Monday Item #1: Eurotopia Says Tourism Is a Human Right
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 5:49 AM
So now, robbing other people to pay for your foreign vacation is a human right, just like robbing other people to pay for your health care is a human right and robbing other people to pay for your education is a human right.
An overseas holiday used to be thought of as a reward for a year's hard work. Now Brussels has declared that tourism is a human right and pensioners, youths and those too poor to afford it should have their travel subsidised by the taxpayer.
No longer considered human rights: free speech, property ownership, and the free exercise of religion.
You would think the Eurotopians would have figured out by now that the model of college until the age of 30, retirement at 55, and six months of vacation a year in between is economically unsustainable. Yet, they persist in pretending that you can have a wealthy society in which no one actually works.
Chairman Zero's Favorite Propaganda Outlet Paid No Taxes Last Year
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 5:21 AM
This is interesting. MSNBC (a.k.a. MSDNC) has been an uncompromising, one-note shill for Chairman Zero and the Obamacrat party. MSDNC is owned by General Electric, which received $140 Billion last year in taxpayer-funded guarantees to bailout its finance division, GE Capital. GE's CEO Jeffrey Immelt is on the Chairman Zero's Board of Economic Advisors. GE also paid no US taxes last year.
Usually, the progressive left gets all twitter-pated about "corporate media" and big corporations who receive government bailouts while paying no taxes; but if the corporation in question is a member of Team Zero, they are exempt from such criticism.
Air Travel Shut Down by Moonbattery
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 3:49 AM
Flights were grounded across northern Europe last week and air travel halted, stranding thousands, because of the eruption of a volcano in Iceland. Now, it turns out, none of that was probably necessary.
This is a long article. But the gist of it is that shutting down air travel across Europe was a hysteria-driven over-reaction to faulty computer models.
Gee, why does that sound familiar?
April 18, 2010
Joe Klein: Criticism of Obama is Sedition
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 6:03 PM
Joe Klein, a columnist fluffer for a declining, little-read propaganda rag called Newsweek TIME, told MSNBC that Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin were "potentially committing sedition" because of their criticisms of Chairman Zero and his regime.
Klein, as it turns out, has a history of accusing anyone who criticizes Chairman Zero of sedition.
Joe Klein accused Senator (Tom) Coburn of committing sedition in December. He accused FOX News of committing sedition in October.
You know, I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!
I may be wrong, but I seem to remember hearing that somewhere before.
Tea Parties: Another Zionist Conspiracy
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 5:14 PM
According to at least one Noam Chomsky acolyte:
The media gives space to the neo-cons as they are the zionist sponsored batch and the most extreme of the teabaggers. They are also as phony as the fundy Christian movement, another zionist started and lead fascist movement to promote zionist policy. The neo-con teabaggers' purpose is to give zionist puppet obama and his merry corporate welfare crew some opposition to fool the wad with...
Our trolls are going to have to work a lot harder to keep up with that level of crazy.
Commenting on the "Young Democrat Socialists of America" take on Noam Chomsky (not radical enough), Doug Ross spells out the difference between right and left.
The "right wing" believes in the Constitution: the rule of God's law and equality of opportunity for all mankind, no matter the race, religion or creed.
The "left wing" believes in the rule of man: a small set of master planners who claim to have the ability to organize others' lives.
Michele Bachmann at Tax Day Tea Party
Posted by Dave Blount at 11:19 AM
Although you wouldn't know it from the complicit statist media, we have been living through a bloodless communist coup. Here first-class countermoonbat Michele Bachmann explains the situation at the Tax Day Tea Party in DC:
Via Looking at the Left.
Tax Day Tea Party 2010 Gala Extravaganza
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:24 AM
(Bumped one last time, updated still again with more photos)
Despite the feeble efforts of liberal infiltrators, Thursday's Tea Parties were once again a smashing success, as the movement continues to grow. Thank you Moonbattery readers for sending in pictures.
Albany, NY — compliments of Doug:
Birmingham, AL — compliments of Craig:
Boise, ID — compliments of Mike:
Chicago, IL — compliments of Kevin K:
Cincinnati, OH — compliments of Paul H:
Concord, NH — compliments of Bernie:
Dallas–Fort Worth, TX — compliments of JustAl:
Eureka, CA — compliments of Jed:
Eureka, CA — compliments of Dave L:
Fayetteville, AR — compliments of Nancz:
Grand Junction, CO — compliments of R985wasp:
Irvine, CA — compliments of Donald Douglas:
Lakeland, FL — compliments of Jim:
Lansing, MI — compliments of Greg:
Madison, WI — compliments of John C:
Montrose, CO — compliments of Kenny:
New York, NY — compliments of Urban Infidel:
Peoria, IL — compliments of Atomic Lib Smasher:
Providence, RI — compliments of Shayne:
Santa Ana, CA — compliments of Oiao:
Statesboro, GA — compliments of Heather:
Tempe, AZ — compliments of Varla:
Ventura County, CA — compliments of Henry:
Washington, DC — compliments of Patriot Tim:
Wilmington, NC — compliments of Z06:
This is only a tiny sample of the patriotism that was on display yesterday from sea to shining sea. If you find what liberals are doing to our country intolerable, you are far from alone.
Unlimited Green Power
Posted by The MaryHunter at 5:30 AM
iOwnTheWorld has found the answer for our nation's thirst for energy. Unfortunately, it requires that Obama be president.
April 17, 2010
Lord Monckton Offers a Deal
Posted by Dave Blount at 12:09 PM
Global warming debunker Lord Christopher Monckton says if we resubmit to British rule and accept the tea tax, he'll take away ObamaCare. If only. It's shaming to think of the risks and hardships our Founding Fathers faced to throw off chains that weren't even worth mentioning compared to the tyranny we willingly endure now. If it weren't for the Tea Parties, you could almost believe our liberal rulers were succeeding in their campaign to reduce us to something between serfs and farm animals by offering everyone something for nothing at everyone else's expense.
Here's Lord Monckton at the Tax Day Tea Party in DC:
On a tip from Edward. Hat tip: Looking at the Left.
Open Thread
Posted by Dave Blount at 11:50 AM
Breitbart on Democrat Progressivism: What Are You Going to Do About It?
Posted by The MaryHunter at 10:25 AM
In Andrew Breitbart's inspiring and revealing Tea Party speech, he explains his "A-ha" moment of conversion from mind-numbed liberal college grad to sensible conservative defending the Constitution. It came down to the public humiliation of Clarence Thomas during his SCOTUS hearing. Breitbart hasn't looked back since, in his fight against the racist, progressive agenda of the Democrat party and the complicit mainstream media.
His take-home quote to the Tea Partiers:
If we sit down and shut up, we lose America. What are you going to do about it?
Hat tip: Big Government.
Profiles in Countermoonbattery: Daniel McCool
Posted by The MaryHunter at 7:54 AM
When this nation of equal opportunity under the law becomes a place where minority rights trump equal treatment for all, its easy to see why some folks get fed up and try to push back.
Oh, he knew it would cause a fuss. But Harris County Deputy Daniel McCool said no one else is standing up for equality of opportunity in local law enforcement. So, two months ago he founded the Caucasian Law Enforcement Association.
The association is open to officers of any racial or ethnic group and from any law enforcement agency in Texas. So, what's the point?
McCool said the organization grew out of his skepticism about the integrity of the hiring practices of Sheriff Adrian Garcia. McCool has no evidence of wrongdoing, but said he believes some employees have been hired or received plum assignments "just because (they) know somebody or just because of an affirmative-action-type decision."
If you think that this is just one more bit of evidence that RACISM! runs rampant among whites in the Age of Obama, think again. The first member of the association was an Hispanic female officer.
"There are several hundred groups in the state of Texas that have their name tied to either a heritage or ethnic group to ensure fair representation. Ours is the same," he said.
He's getting some grief from the County Commission, which is reviewing his request to start the option of automatic payroll deductions for association members. His is not a white supremacist's organization, but one that poses a lot of trouble for affirmative-action holdouts from civil rights days who ultimately aim to make the "average American" a second-class citizen. Maybe sometime in this nation, equal rights will really truly mean equal rights for all.
And the Moral Is, Don't Be Naked in Places Where Liberals Are Known to Congregate
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 6:28 AM
"He proceeded to slide his hand onto my ribs and back and then touched my butt," Mr. Rawls said. "As he was passing me he looked me in the eyes and said 'You feel good, man.'"
Well, let me just ask... is there anything you could have done to have prevented this... like maybe... I don't know... not posing naked for the amusement of the kind of people who patronize naked people exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art?
These are the people who think being a Hooter's waitress is demeaning, but put a bunch of naked people in a museum and its "Ahhht."
Say What You Will About the Catholic Church...
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:41 AM
At least they didn't give kids laptops and then use them to take creepy images of kids in their bedrooms, all the while sharing gossip about them through employee emails.
Like certain public schools have allegedly done.
The system that Lower Merion school officials used to track lost and stolen laptops wound up secretly capturing thousands of images, including photographs of students in their homes, Web sites they visited, and excerpts of their online chats, says a new motion filed in a suit against the district.
Back at district offices, the Robbins motion says, employees with access to the images marveled at the tracking software. It was like a window into "a little LMSD soap opera," a staffer is quoted as saying in an e-mail to Carol Cafiero, the administrator running the program.
"I know, I love it," she is quoted as having replied.
The material disclosed by the district contains hundreds of photos of Robbins and his family - "including pictures of Blake partially undressed and of Blake sleeping," the motion states.
Creepy.
April 16, 2010
The Statistic That Tells You Everything You Need to Know About the Tea Parties
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 2:54 PM
1,000 Tea Party Protest: 0 Arrested
1 Leftist SEIU Protest: 25 Arrested
Short verson: (My clarifications in italics)
A crowd of more than 100 protestors faced off against about 50 police officers yesterday afternoon at Ohio State University in an attempt tobring public awareness to the conditions of Sodexo food-workers at university sporting eventsbully Sodexo into unionizing itself out of existence. …
The protest is part of a "smear campaign" against the firm by the SEIU in a bid to get the firm to exclusively negotiate with that union, said Sodexo spokeswoman Monica Zimmer.
The 25 were arrested when they were blocking traffic on a main thoroughfare and refused to leave.
The headline for this post is a playoff of the headline of this post on a lefty blog. And the stat they want to cite is this:
The percentage holding a favorable opinion of former President George W. Bush = 57%
And I think the line in the post that tells you everything you need to know about the author's objectivity is this:
A substantial majority of Tea Party members hold a favorable opinion of the man that history will very likely deem the worst president in American History
Whatever, hippie.
Profiles in Countermoonbattery: Marine Cpl. Matthew Bradford
Posted by Dave Blount at 1:53 PM
Don't let the scum floating on the top convince you that America has gone rotten. Here's what the scum is floating on:
He has no legs and no eyesight, but Marine Cpl. Matthew Bradford has four more years of military service ahead of him after becoming the first blind double-amputee to re-enlist.
The rifleman was injured in January 2007 in Iraq when a roadside bomb exploded right under him, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
But after years at the Center for the Intrepid, a privately funded, cutting-edge rehabilitation center, Bradford, 23, has learned to walk with prosthetic limbs and navigate without his vision, and he only regrets that he can't return to combat duty in Iraq, the paper reported.
If Cpl. Bradford doesn't whine and sponge off Big Government, there is zero excuse for anyone to.
On a tip from Lyle.
Feminists Celebrate Abortion for Convenience
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 11:15 AM
A pro-abortion activist defaced an "Abortion Changes You" poster in the New York subway system as shown below.
It's bullsh-t, right? An unplanned pregnancy mean would just a temporary delay of college. After the baby is born, the woman just can just pick up where she left off, right? The aborted baby, on the other hand, does not get to do that. Or indeed, anything.
But the Abortion Fanatics at Feministing (safe link to NewsReal Blog) were thrilled with the vandalism.
(Feministing's) Jessica Valenti called the abortionchangesyou.com ad "heinous." Do you know what she said about the defaced ad promoting abortion for convenience? She called the vandal a "pro-choice hero" and then said: "Love. It."
Because the most important thing to the social left is that you get to gratify yourself sexually without judgment or consequence. Everything else is details. And goddess forfend that someone might try to discuss the negative physical and emotional consequences of terminating that tiny human life that your sexual irresponsibility has created.
Chris Matthews Syndrome Explained
Posted by Dave Blount at 11:09 AM
At last we have a scientific explanation for the "thrill" MSDNC's Chris "Tingles" Matthews has experienced since the Moonbat Messiah came on the scene:
A U.K. woman has been diagnosed with persistent genital arousal disorder after falling off her Wii Fit board and damaging a nerve, the Toronto Sun reported.
Amanda Flowers, who lives in Manchester, England, said she has sexual urges up to 10 times a day since she fell. A doctor confirmed her diagnosis.
"It began as a twinge down below, before surging through my body," Flowers told a U.K. newspaper. "Sometimes it built up into a trembling orgasm."
The syndrome was pandemic among liberals as recently as a year ago last January, but has been declining sharply:
Before long this dreadful condition should be isolated to the media and college faculties.
Hat tip: Pirate's Cove, on a tip from Troll Smacker.
Paper or Plastic? Neither
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:31 AM
What to do when it comes to bagging your groceries? Plastic bags are created out of chemical compounds with so many syllables, they can't help but be harmful to polar bears. But paper bags require the rape of the forests, where happy animals would frolic in harmony if not for greedy mankind's depredations. Here's the answer: ban plastic, charge for paper.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Two more Northern California counties have moved to ban retail stores from giving out plastic bags and have them charge for paper bags.
Santa Clara County supervisors voted Tuesday to prohibit the distribution of the bags during checkout at retail stores in unincorporated areas. Shoppers would be able to buy 100 percent recyclable paper bags under the ordinance that goes for a final vote in October.
Also Tuesday, Santa Cruz County supervisors voted to move ahead with a similar ordinance, though implementation is pending an environmental review.
Alternatively, you can carry your groceries home by stuffing them in your cheeks like a chipmunk. If it's good enough for the animals, it's good enough for a mere human.
On a tip from Muddypaw.
Still More Failed Tea Party Infiltrators
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:47 AM
Patriots were more than ready for the moonbat vermin who attempted to sully yesterday's historic rallies for liberty.
Here's the reception a clown with Nazi symbols on his shirt got in St. Louis:
Special signs were also used to defang moonbats in Oceanside, CA…
…in San Francisco…
…in Denver…
…in Texas…
…and as noted earlier, in Columbus:
Failure comes naturally to moonbats. Here's one attempting to defuse the DC Tea Party with preposterous lies:
It would be hilarious, if fools and liars of this caliber weren't running the government.
Via Gateway Pundit and Michelle Malkin. On a tip from J. Denver photo by John G.
Another Failed Tea Party Crasher
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:09 AM
The infiltration concept was slimy but clever — except how many moonbats would have the subtlety to pull it off? In Greensboro, NC, yet another failed miserably:
The Tax Day Tea Party in downtown Greensboro ran smoothly Thursday. Everyone sang the patriotic staple "God Bless the U.S.A.," kids got their faces painted and the parched drank their Liber-Tea.
Well, there was one tiny glitch.
A man dressed in all black and a hood or mask came to the side of the stage by the old county courthouse while a person spoke and held up a sign reading, "Prosperity = White Supremacy."
The crowd didn't fancy the man's sign and cast a round of boos in his direction. Pretty soon, three Greensboro police officers escorted the man away from the protest.
This will be hard for liberals to grasp, but liberty has nothing to do with race. It did long ago, but we spent over 600,000 lives in the Civil War correcting that.
On tips from John D and J.
George Soros Scares Fox Away From Cincy Tea Party
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:52 AM
Here's what the crowd in Cincinnati was told about Fox News pulling Sean Hannity out of the Tea Party at the last moment:
Cincinnati Tea Party founder Mike Wilson explains it in a letter at Hannity's site.
It seems we have yet another example of people allowing left-wing bullies to push them into a corner and then over a cliff. We don't have to prove we aren't racists, and we don't have to prove we're not profiteers. All we have to do is love liberty and hate its enemies.
The liberal media take is that ethics required FNC to pull the plug because Tea Party organizers would have profited from Hannity's presence, as if these events could be staged for free. How is making a profit to be used to finance future events worse than fans paying to see Hannity and then not getting to see him? FNC and the Cincy Tea Party had no financial relationship.
Video is compliments of Paul H, who reports,
Frankly, we were fine BEFORE he decided to come, and we were just fine without him. However, my respect-o-meter for Fox went down a few notches for wimping out.
Wimping out won't win our country back.
His Awesomeness Wants Thanks from Tea Partiers
Posted by The MaryHunter at 7:50 AM
Chairman Zero loves himself so much that he feels the Tea Partiers should love him too - or at least be grateful.
President Obama on Thursday said he was "amused" by the tax day protests going on around the country to commemorate the IRS deadline for tax returns, and said the Tea Party movement's protests of his policies were misguided.
"You would think they would be saying 'thank you.' That's what you'd think," Obama said, speaking to about 1,000 Democratic donors in Miami, at a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee.
Obama cited tax cuts in the $787 billion stimulus plan of a year ago as one reason that Americans who think taxes are too high should be grateful to him.
Listen up, Dear Leader: The Tea Party movement IS grateful to you. Single-handedly, you have so awakened mainstream America to the horrors of the progressive agenda (in the form of Obamunism) to the point that the Tea Party is a full-fledged, grass-roots political force, with momentum aplenty against not only you but also your progressive Democrat puppet Congress.
So, on behalf of Tea Partiers everywhere: Thanks, Mr. President. Now go the eff away.
Open Thread
Posted by Dave Blount at 7:42 AM
Extremists Against Bells
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 7:01 AM
Residents and a school official say hardline (Islamic) militants in Somalia have banned school bells in one southern town because they say they are un-Islamic.
Christ the King Church pastor Bishop Rick Painter was sentenced for ringing his church's bells, and given a suspended sentence of ten days in jail and three years' probation on June 3.
Could CNN's Bad Ratings Be Because Their Anchors Are Idiots?
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 5:47 AM
We know Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper suck at Jeopardy. But Rick Sanchez is possibly the biggest moron anchoring cable news today with the possible exception of Joy Behar... who is also on CNN.
While reporting on the eruption of a volcano in Iceland, Rickie had this to say.
"When you think of a volcano, you think of Hawaii and long words like that. You don't think of Iceland. You think it's too cold to have a volcano there."
No, Rick. We don't think that, because we're not stupid. On the other hand, since you were addressing a CNN audience, your assessment of what your audience thinks might well be correct.
After all, they also believe that Obama gave them a tax cut.
Item #3: My Teenage Son on the 'Day of Silence'
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:42 AM
My son is okay with the 'Day of Silence,' for the following reason (paraphrasing). "It means the people who are into all that gay rights crap have to shut up about it for a day."
It's also a flimsy segue into this Rowan Atkinson classic (Mild language warning).
Item #2: Majority of Americans Are Right-Wing Kooks
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:15 AM
According to a poll by the New York Times, 52% of Americans now recognize that Obama is moving the USA toward socialism.
Only the Kool-Aid drinkers and the furthest fringes of the left still believe that Obama is a centrist/moderate. The deniers defend his socialist-style takeovers of the auto industry and health care, as well as the student loan market -- and his pending takeovers of the financial sector and energy -- as necessitated by the grave situation he "inherited."
In other words, they claim he had to destroy the free enterprise system in order to save it.
"No, No!" insist the Kool-Aid drinkers. "Obama is not a socialist. If he was a socialist, ObamaCare would have outlawed the insurance companies. Instead, he's allowing them to exist in order to administer the government's health care program. Just like banks used to administer the... um... student loan program."
Crap.
Morning Briefs for Friday Item #1: B. Hussein Obama "My Humility Is One of My Most Awesome Traits"
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 3:57 AM
Chairman Zero wants you to know, the best part about his awesomeness is how humble he is about it.
United States president Barack Obama says he and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd share several personality traits - one of which is humility.
"He was quite expansive and quite genuine on what he saw as the commonality and connections between [he and Mr Rudd]. One of which was humility," O'Brien said.
At a Dramacrat Fundraiser yesterday, Captain Humility attacked the Tea Party Patriots for their ingratitude.
"You would think they should be saying thank you," the president said to applause.
April 15, 2010
'Crash the Tea Party' FAIL
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 7:48 PM
The Crash the Tea Party Project was the Progressive Left's last, best hope to smear the Tea Parties as racist bigots.
It failed.
Here we see a progressive douchebag in Columbus OH attempt to discredit the Tea Party by waving an offensively racist sign.
After the Jump, see how real patriots responded to this racist left-wing Hair Club for Men reject.
You FAIL, Loser. Go back to your parents basement. Do Not Pass Starbucks. Do Not Collect $200 from George Soros.
Judge Rules National Day of Prayer Unconstitutional
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 7:23 PM
A Federal Judge in Wisconsin (a Carter appointee, natch) has ruled that the "National Day of Prayer" is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb wrote that the government can no more enact laws supporting a day of prayer than it can encourage citizens to fast during Ramadan, attend a synagogue or practice magic.
Drive a wedge between the USA and God, and the USA's destruction is assured; which is why eradicating religion is such a high priority among progressives.
Hat Tip: Sondra K
Taxman
Posted by The MaryHunter at 5:25 PM
When George Harrison wrote "Taxman" for The Beatles, he was slamming the enormously progressive tax system in the UK. This is the inevitable future for Obama's America so it's fitting that he himself perform a cover -- though without the sarcasm of the original.
On a Revolver tip from TrickleUpPolitics.
Spot the Infiltrators in Champaign
Posted by Dave Blount at 12:53 PM
So far Tea Party infiltrators haven't been terribly subtle. I'm guessing you can tell the moonbats (reportedly mainly law students from the University of Illinois) apart from the normal Americans in these pictures from today's Tea Party in Champaign:
When these cretins attack Tea Parties for being mainly white, they are attacking America for being mainly white. But patriots are supposedly the racists.
Photos compliments of Bob Z.
Bring on the Tea, Patriots!
Posted by The MaryHunter at 12:35 PM
Are you heading out to a tea party after work but still haven't found that perfect sign? iOwnTheWorld has a few suggestions here, and many more on their site.
But He's Working on It
Posted by Dave Blount at 12:23 PM
On a tip from John L.
Heteronormativity = Racism
Posted by Dave Blount at 11:10 AM
If you're heading out to a Tea Party, whatever you do, don't show any pride in not being a sexual pervert, because that would be racist — or so we're told:
LANSING — State and national organizations who represent the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are expressing outrage over t-shirts bearing the slogan "Straight Pride" offered for sale at a Saturday rally of the Tea Party Express. …
Gay advocacy groups say the shirts are reminiscent of the "white pride" slogan adopted by racist groups who oppose equality.
"It's like white supremacy," says Penny Gardner, president of the Lansing Association for Human Rights, a Lansing area lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights group. "It's as if they are saying the idea of supremacy is some how the American way. The American way is about equality, and equality is all we're looking for."
Equality means you can take pride in being depraved, but not in not being depraved. Rea Carey of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force explains:
"'LGBT Pride' has long been an inspiring, powerful and celebratory rallying call, and its appeal is obvious. But this doesn't appear to be a case of imitation is the highest form of flattery. Instead, it's veiled homophobia in action, and peddling homophobia and profiting from it are both immoral and unacceptable."
Sure, the appeal is obvious. As for the normal people who participate in Tea Parties, according to David Holtz of Progress Michigan,
"They are working very hard at being a fringe group, and succeeding."
Daryl Presgaves of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), the perverted moonbat cult founded by Comrade Obama's pedophile Safe Schools Czar, participated in the bullying of anyone who would dare take pride in not being abnormal by proclaiming:
"It's sad and troubling that some parents instill values of exclusion and teach their children to disrespect and bully those who are different from them."
In other words, we've got a great big stick called political correctness, so you'd better shut up and lay low or we'll hit you again. You bully.
On a tip from Incitatus.
Senate Dems Prepare to Sneak Through Tax & Charade
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:01 AM
The coup de grâce to our capitalist economy, Cap & Trade, has gone under the radar, but is still in play. This outrageous act of sabotage ("likely to be the biggest tax in American history" per the Wall Street Journal) passed the House, and prior to being thrown out of office this fall, Harry Reid plans to get even with the voters by slipping it through the Senate for Comrade Obama's eager signature.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is about to take over as stage manager in the uphill push to pass comprehensive climate and energy legislation.
Whenever the word "comprehensive" appears in any Big Government undertaking, the American people are in for serious pain.
In an effort to keep the bill in Reid's hands, the sponsors — Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) won't officially introduce the bill in the Senate when they unveil it to the public next week.
Remember Lieberman's participation in this unfolding catastrophe next time someone tries to pass him off as a moderate or a man of principle. If he would take part in Al Gore's alarming attempt to seize power after losing the 2000 election, it's unsurprising he would crawl into bed with the likes of Hanoi John Kerry and the quintessential moonbat RINO Lindsey Graham.
Even some Democrats smell a decomposing rat:
Already, some senators also are raising red flags about the committee process, which they warn may be circumvented if the Kerry-Graham-Lieberman proposal moves directly into Reid's office.
"These bills need to go through committee," said Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.). "If you're talking about making major deals on energy policy, it needs to go through the Energy Committee. If you're making major deals on tax policy, it needs to go through the Finance Committee. I mean, if you want to get it done."
But things are done differently, now that we have Obamunist "transparency." Draconian bills that will radically lower our standard of living are rammed through by any means necessary, with details kept hidden.
If the Dems could impose the intensely unpopular ObamaCare debacle, Tax & Charade ought to be a cinch, since unscrupulous Repubics (Lettuce McStain, Newt Gingrich) have shown a willingness to climb aboard the ecofascism bandwagon. According to Frank O'Donnell of Clean Air Watch,
So far, there are no Republican big dogs willing to sniff Reid's hind quarters on this issue.
Apparently Grahamnesty, who has lodged his snout halfway up Reid's colon, doesn't count as a big dog. But his traitorous example will not be helpful when it comes to corralling other RINOs.
Hat tip: Yid With Lid. On a tip from Gj Ferra.
Since 1773
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 9:31 AM
Nice Video, but I still find the word vulgar and juvenile. Solidarity, comrades!!!
BTW: Even the New York Waste of Times is no longer buying the meme that Tea Partiers are dumb and uneducated.
Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, and are no more or less afraid of falling into a lower socioeconomic class, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
And this is going to shock the Obama Amen Corner, but the Tea Parties are pretty much ordinary Americans.
Their responses are like the general public's in many ways. Most describe the amount they paid in taxes this year as "fair." Most send their children to public schools. A plurality do not think Sarah Palin is qualified to be president, and, despite their push for smaller government, they think that Social Security and Medicare are worth the cost to taxpayers. They actually are just as likely as Americans as a whole to have returned their census forms, though some conservative leaders have urged a boycott.
And in contrast to what the Obama Amen Corner tells itself, Tea Partiers are not obsessed with the president's race or his birth certificate.
Asked what they are angry about, Tea Party supporters offered three main concerns: the recent health care overhaul, government spending and a feeling that their opinions are not represented in Washington.
Gee, what a dangerous bunch of racist radicals.
Hat Tip: Leah via Teh Facebook.
Open Thread
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:05 AM
EPA Announces Contest to Celebrate Regulatory Wonderfulness
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 8:56 AM
The EPA issued a press release announcing a video contest, inviting citizens to submit videos celebrating Federal micromanagement of every aspect of human life and … in particular … the EPA's fanatical, expensive, job-killing climate regulations.
The contest will highlight the significance of federal regulations and help the public understand the rulemaking process.
Federal agencies develop and issue hundreds of rules and regulations every year to implement statutes written by Congress. Almost every aspect of an individual's life is touched by federal regulations.
They say it like it's a good thing.
Hat Tip: NRO
Housing in a Socialist Paradise
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:40 AM
Despite all the Hopey Change, Sweden is still ahead of us on the road toward collectivism. Let's see how easy it is to find housing in a place where it's regarded as a "human right":
Long waiting times and high black market prices have long characterised Stockholm's rental housing market… The sheer hopelessness of the situation faced by newcomers to Stockholm looking to rent an apartment has been exposed once again by a report on the findings of the major public housing firms…
The most common scenario is that many tenants keep hold of their rental apartments after having moved. As the waiting times for inner-city Stockholm apartments can run to as long as 20 years many fear never being able to re-enter the market again if they were to surrender their contracts.
Waiting lists are to be expected under socialism, but Stockholm is particularly awful. Of eight comparable EU cities studied in a report by the Swedish Property Federation,
Stockholm stood alone as the city with a long waiting list. It was also the only city with a generally regulated housing system.
As usual, the crisis is a result of Big Government getting its foot in the door.
Hans Lind [a professor of housing economics at the Royal Technical College in Stockholm] explained that the system of regulated rents was introduced in the 1950s as a temporary measure and that now, almost sixty years later, the somewhat unique situation is very difficult to change.
Lind was asked,
Defenders of rent regulation argue that the current system allows people of all incomes and classes to live in the inner-city. Can you see any advantages with the system?
"Only for those who happen to find an apartment. Now it is very much by chance, or for those with a lot of money and the right contacts, or after a very long wait," Lind argued.
"To suggest that the regulated rental market fulfils a social function is just hypocrisy. Take Stockholm. Anyone can see that the rich live in one place, the less well-off somewhere else. There are very few areas where they are mixed."
Some will always be higher on the totem pole than others. In a free country, you climb or slide on your merits. In a socialist country, everything is frozen in place by the bureaucracy. This is why socialism is favored by elitists.
Eric Clark [a professor in human geography at Lund University] on the other hand argued that the rental market should fulfil a social function.
"It is a question of whether you see housing as a human right," he said.
When progressives start blathering about their coercive concept of "human rights," it means their moonbattery cannot be defended.
On a tip from Forest.
Obamaganda Versus Reality
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 8:20 AM
Obamaganda: Recession is over. The economy is great. All praise to Dear Reader.
Reality: Foreclosure rates take biggest jump in 5 years.
Reality: Initial Jobless Claims Increase by 24,000 to 484,000 last week.
There may be some sort of recovery in the works, but I don't think we're anywhere close to there yet. Right now, as a country, we're like a guy who lost his six-figure job, but instead of cutting back, we're keeping up appearances by taking out a third mortgage on our McMansion, maxing out our credit cards, and spending the kids' college fund.
Hat Tip: Ace.
Comment on the Commentary
Posted by Dave Blount at 7:52 AM
A young member of the liberal ruling class from the Harvard Political Review "tried to comb [his] hair like a conservative would" and went undercover to report on the Boston Tea Party yesterday. He writes like an adolescent trendoid and doesn't have much to say, but at least the comments are open…
On a tip from Cluebat from Exodar.
Patriot Infiltrators
Posted by Dave Blount at 7:37 AM
If moonbats can infiltrate Tea Parties, brave patriots can go undercover to observe the infantile tantrums thrown by lefties:
Via iOwnTheWorld, on tips from TED and J.
Good Advice
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 5:51 AM
From Sondra K
BTW: During one of my Dian Fossey-like forays onto TBTHMG, I note that they are telling each other that the Tea Parties are most definitely not a grassroots, regular-American phenomenon, but only exist because FoxNews constantly exhorts people to attend them.
Yet, on my way into work, I was tuned into FoxNews stations (WFMD in Frederick, WTNT in Bethesda), heard at least four news updates, and none of them even mentioned the Tea Parties. Their top story is about a volcano in Iceland.
Item #3: Party of the Working Class? Really?
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:45 AM
A Democrat Congressman from Missouri not only owns a 42-foot yacht, he also docks it across the river in Illinois as a tax dodge.
Most. Ethical. Congress. Ever!
Item #2: Here's One Guy Who'll Be Observing the 'Day of Silence'
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:28 AM
If we never hear from the New York-based troll known as Meh/Snot/ZimaBaron again, this may be perhaps why.
A hard-partying lighting designer was found dead in his luxury Manhattan apartment wearing a knee-length black latex suit and a gas mask and handcuffed from behind, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
What a shame, he would have made a superb Safe Schools Czar.
Morning Briefs for Thursday Item #1: WTF?
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 3:47 AM
Good Morning Right-Wing Patriots, Good Morning Left-Wing, Palin-hating dumpster divers,
The douchebags at the appropriately named "Crooks and Liars" blog seem to find the following quote from a Grand Rapids tea party patriot beyond the pale.
"For some reason, liberals seem to think people deserve paychecks who don't work and that's silly considering I don't want my hard earned money, my parents money, my siblings money to go to people who don't deserve it."
May I presume that if you think that quote is some sort of indictment of Tea Party values, then your own values include confiscating money from hard-working families to lavish on people who don't deserve it?
April 14, 2010
Was Anyone Reading His Lips?
Posted by Dave Blount at 6:24 PM
As noted earlier, ObamaCare includes a $3.9 billion tax hit on the Middle Class, and that's only the beginning. The cruelest tax, inflation, will come into play — as will a VAT tax if Democrats have their way. Then there's Cap & Trade, which passed the House, and which the Wall Street Journal notes is "likely to be the biggest tax in American history." All of this follows promises that 95% of us would pay less taxes.
You didn't expect your grandchildren to pick up the tab for all of Obama's wasteful spending, did you?
Imagine how arrogant they must be to think they'll get away with this.
On a tip from Ericka.
Union Thugs Crash Boston Tea Party
Posted by Dave Blount at 6:06 PM
Lacking the patience to follow the game plan of shouting racial epithets while posing as patriots, screeching moonbats from USW 8751, a union representing school bus drivers, crashed the Tea Party in Boston today:
The attack was organized by the International Action Center.
Is scum like this going to determine the future of our country? Only if we let it.
On a tip from J. Hat tip: Gateway Pundit. More at Left Coast Rebel.
Tinsel Town's Tax Comeuppance
Posted by The MaryHunter at 5:52 PM
Do you like paying taxes? Probably not. Well, many eye-poppingly wealthy celebs don't like paying taxes, either. In fact, so much so that they just don't.
Nicolas Cage's bookkeeping got a bit muddled, and now he has to shell out $13.3 million to the federal government.
Joe Francis, founder of "Girls Gone Wild," forgot, too. His tab? $29.4 million -- or roughly 5 million margaritas.
Sinbad the Comedian? A very unfunny $8.15 million, which doesn't even include interest and legal fees.
Other celebs who owe the taxman big bucks are Pamela Anderson ($1.7 million), the rapper Nas ($3.4 million), singer Dionne Warwick ($2.2 million) and actor Terrence Howard ($1.1 million).
These are not just rounding errors, nor are they minor omissions in the style of Treasury Secretary Tim "TurboTax" Geithner. Just how many of these Hollywood glitterazzi voted for Obama thinking, just like those "little people" did, that Obama would fix everything for them? Guess again.
On a glittery tip from firewifem.
Rep. Pence Gets a Belly Laugh from House Democrats
Posted by The MaryHunter at 1:59 PM
Indiana Republican Rep. Mike Pence has a bit of a chuckle today on the House floor, at the expense of Democrats who claim to have -- heh -- reduced taxes this year.
Message to Democrats and Obama (which will come through loud and clear tomorrow through the Tea Parties): Get the EFF out of the way, leave America alone!
Hat tip: HotAirPundit, on a tip from Gateway Pundit.
Palin-Obsessed Leftists Reduced to Picking Through Garbage
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 12:38 PM
Deranged Palin-haters, determined to go to any lengths necessary in order to find something ... anything ... with which to smear a private citizen with no government authority ... dug through the garbage at California State University -- Stanislaus to recover what they claim is Sarah Palin's contract for a speech given at the university.
The document --- which was found mysteriously intact amid piles of shredded documents --- purports to show that Mrs. Palin requires (clutch the pearls!) first-class airfare to the location of the speech, a nice hotel, and bottles of water at her podium.
I know. I know. How dare that wolf-killing, Obama-criticizing, hand-note-writing, Arctic-Cat parka wearing, meth-dealing, she-devil with the slut daughter, the baby who should have been aborted (and probably isn't hers anyway) and the meth-head son who joined the army to avoid prosecution for vandalism and who is probably gay ... woman dare to request the same level of accommodation most any other speaker at her level of demand would. If she did.
Candidate for Governor Jerry "The Amazing Hippie-Fossil" Moonbeam has decided that Sarah Palin's speaking arrangements are a very serious campaign issue in a state Palin isn't even running for anything.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown said his office would look into the finances of the California State University, Stanislaus Foundation, as well as allegations that the nonprofit organization violated public disclosure laws by keeping details of Palin's contract secret.
Gee, Jer, when you put it that way, I can see how Sarah Palin's speaking contract is way more serious than California's $20 Billion budget deficit or double digit unemployment.
Make Your Tea Party Plans
Posted by Dave Blount at 11:24 AM
To quote the great Ronaldus Maximus:
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the Democrats believe every day is April 15.
Tomorrow really is Tax Day, but patriots are going to make it look like the Fourth. Tea Party Patriots counts 751 Tax Day Tea Party events, so you should have no problem finding one near you.
Keep your eyes open for liberal infiltrators. They'll be the ones shouting racial epithets and smelling like discarded cheese.
If you get some good pictures, please send them along.
On a tip from Oiao.
Open Thread
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:51 AM
A New Word in the Democrat Dictionary
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 10:37 AM
Following on the advice of George Orwell, Democrats have been butchering the language over the last few years. For political purposes, they have attached new meanings to old words.
Racist: Someone who is winning an argument with a Democrat.
Torture: Any discomfort a terrorist complains about while a Republican is president.
Smear: The act of a Republican telling the truth about a Democrat. (see also, "Swiftboating")
When the Democrats passed their "Pay-as-you-go" legislation in February, it required that all additional spending be offset but tax increases or cuts in other programs, except for an "emergency."
Because of this loophole, Democrats have had to redefine the word "Emergency" to mean "an excuse to spend money."
Latest case, Democrats are proposing a $23 Billion bailout for the government schools, to ensure that no educrats in the bloated education bureaucracy (which funnels its union dues exclusively to Democrats) will be laid off even if the schools don't need them and can't afford them.
More Treason on the Way From New York Times
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:30 AM
Just because there is no longer a Republican in the White House is no reason the vermin running the New York Times have to stop engaging in treason. A warning from Big Government's Brad Thor:
I have just received word that the New York Times is preparing to go public with a list of names of Americans covertly working in Afghanistan providing force protection for our troops, as well as the rest of our Coalition Forces. If the Times actually sees this through, the red ink they are drowning in will be nothing compared to the blood their entire organization will be covered with. Make no mistake, the Times is about to cause casualty rates in Afghanistan to skyrocket.
This is consistent with the past policy of this vile publication. Here's a glimpse of the festering pustule that serves its publisher Pinch Sulzberger for a mind:
Pinch was a political activist in the Sixties, and was twice arrested in anti-Vietnam protests. One day, the elder Sulzberger asked his son what Pinch calls, "the dumbest question I've ever heard in my life." If an American soldier runs into a North Vietnamese soldier, which would you like to see get shot? Young Arthur answered, "I would want to see the American get shot. It's the other guy's country." Some Sixties activists have since thought better of their early enthusiasms. Pinch hasn't.
The Slimes has participated in the deaths of American troops before. The blood isn't only on its own hands, but on the hands of its readers as well.
On a tip from Keyboard Militia.
Obamunist Mediocrity Imposed on Space Program
Posted by Dave Blount at 10:04 AM
At least Comrade Obama's NASA plans are consistent with his other objectives. As in all other areas, he is imposing mediocrity. Take it from former astronauts Neil Armstrong, James Lovell, and Eugene Cernan:
The United States entered into the challenge of space exploration under President Eisenhower's first term, however, it was the Soviet Union who excelled in those early years. Under the bold vision of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, and with the overwhelming approval of the American people, we rapidly closed the gap in the final third; of the 20th century, and became the world leader in space exploration.
America's space accomplishments earned the respect and admiration of the world. Science probes were unlocking the secrets of the cosmos; space technology was providing instantaneous worldwide communication; orbital sentinels were helping man understand the vagaries of nature. Above all else, the people around the world were inspired by the human exploration of space and the expanding of man's frontier. It suggested that what had been thought to be impossible was now within reach. Students were inspired to prepare themselves to be a part of this new age. No government program in modern history has been so effective in motivating the young to do "what has never been done before."
World leadership in space was not achieved easily. In the first half-century of the space age, our country made a significant financial investment, thousands of Americans dedicated themselves to the effort, and some gave their lives to achieve the dream of a nation. In the latter part of the first half century of the space age, Americans and their international partners focused primarily on exploiting the near frontiers of space with the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station.
The ISS was something of an exercise in "we are the world" international hand-holding, but the space program was about to get back on track with the Constellation program, intended to return us to the moon and then outward to Mars. But then came the most shameful event in American history: the 2008 election. As one of its many tragic consequences, Constellation was canceled.
Now we won't even be able to get to the Space Station without begging a ride from the Russians, who rejected the collectivism American voters were tricked into embracing.
America's only path to low Earth orbit and the International Space Station will now be subject to an agreement with Russia to purchase space on their Soyuz (at a price of over 50 million dollars per seat with significant increases expected in the near future) until we have the capacity to provide transportation for ourselves. …
For The United States, the leading space faring nation for nearly half a century, to be without carriage to low Earth orbit and with no human exploration capability to go beyond Earth orbit for an indeterminate time into the future, destines our nation to become one of second or even third rate stature. …
Without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the USA is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity.
Mediocrity, imposed on all by the scuttling bureaucrats who serve as its avatars — that's liberalism in a nutshell. This is why our science funds are now spent on manufacturing phony data to prop up the global warming hoax instead of striving for new frontiers.
On a tip from Byron.
Will Obamunism Reach Full Flower This Fall?
Posted by Dave Blount at 9:17 AM
No collectivist tyrant has it all until he has a domestic army to keep the people on their knees. Comrade Obama made his plans to create a massive one clear even before his catastrophic election. He even managed to advance this goal as part of ObamaCare. Before the year is out, we might find out what it's like to live in a country where the military fights the people on behalf of an enemy in control of the government. From the Examiner:
In October of this year, one month prior to the November midterm elections, a special army unit known as 'Consequence Management Response Force' will be ready for deployment on American soil if so ordered by the President.
The special force, which is the new name being given to the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry, has been training at Fort Stewart, Georgia and is composed of 80,000 troops.
According to the Army Times,
They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.
The key phrase is 'may be called upon to help with civil unrest.'
This news takes on special significance in light of revelations that people linked to the Democrat Party have been involved in recruiting infiltrators to disrupt Tea Parties.
Communists killed over 100 million of their own people in the 20th century. A communist killed JFK. It's not hard to believe that neocommunists working for or in support of the leftists currently running the federal government would try to forestall their coming loss of Congress by positioning a Lee Harvey Oswald type to do something outrageous to get the ball rolling.
To quote Obama Teleprompter programmer Rahm "Dead Fish" Emmanuel:
You never want a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
If the crisis doesn't present itself, you just have to create one.
The question is whether American troops would fire on patriotic citizens on behalf of left-wing scum that clearly despises them. All soldiers have a tendency to follow orders. The Oath Keepers need to step up their efforts.
On a tip from Troll Smacker.
ObamaCare to Hike Taxes on Middle Class by $3.9 Billion
Posted by Dave Blount at 8:28 AM
Remember the incessant pledges from Comrade Obama that the Middle Class would see absolutely no tax increases if he took power? Remember how 95% of Americans were going to get a tax cut? Keep remembering those lies next time you can get at a voting both. Also remember this — ObamaCare includes a $3.9 BILLION tax hike for the Middle Class:
Taxpayers earning less than $200,000 a year will pay roughly $3.9 billion more in taxes — in 2019 alone — due to healthcare reform, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress's official scorekeeper.
Yet the lies continue, brazen as ever:
President Barack Obama in his Saturday radio address said the healthcare law keeps his campaign pledge to not raise taxes on the middle class. In his bid for the White House, he promised that individuals earning less than $200,000 and joint filers earning less than $250,000 would not see a tax increase under his watch.
The hike works by denying tax deductions for medical care. Hot Air comments:
Presently, those taxpayers who itemize their expenses can deduct medical care that costs more than 7.5% of their adjusted gross income (AGI)… What kinds of taxpayers have those high medical costs? The sick and the elderly, or at least older Americans still working and being productive. These are the people with massive medical bills who really need the tax deductions in order to pay the bills, and yet these are the very Americans on whose backs ObamaCare pays its own bills.
The bleeding hearts of our liberal rulers are several sizes too small.
Betraying his "read my lips" pledge deservedly destroyed the political career of George Bush Sr. But there's no chance of BHO getting what he deserves for the long-term damage he's inflicting on our economy, since those punishments went out with the Middle Ages.
On a tip from J.
Fiscal Responsibility, What a Concept
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 8:24 AM
The Obamunists running the Federal Government saddle us with a multi-trillion dollar health care entitlement, they take out more debt to cover unemployment extensions instead of taking it out of worthless spending programs, and they perform the neat trick of pouring more money into NASA while having the agency do less of its actual mission.
In this bizarro world we've lived in since... I think the day the sane world ended was either when Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize or when David Lee Roth left Van Halen ... you have to look to France to find a country that's serious about its military, and to New Jersey for a state where a politician is enacting fiscal restraint.
Leftists, of course, are squealing...
The governor is hurting the environment and keeping green jobs out of the state.
As Ace points out, Michigan has been chasing "Green Jobs" for over a decade. How's that working for them?
The children will be the ones to suffer from your education cuts. "The real question is, who's for the kids, and who's for their raises? This isn't about the kids. Let's dispense with that portion of the argument. Don't let them tell you that ever again while they are reaching into your pockets."
Budget cuts are unfair. "The special interests have already begun to scream their favorite word--which, coincidentally, is my 9-year-old son's favorite word when we are making him do something he knows is right but does not want to do--'unfair.' . . . One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life, and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits--a total of $3.8 million on a $120,000 investment. Is that fair?"
My personal preference would be to have a White House Budget Director with the nickname "Chainsaw," but until then, I'll make do with Chris Christie
Cross-Dressing as Elementary School Education
Posted by The MaryHunter at 7:15 AM
Only in America, from the tree-hugging, granola-crunching moonbats who comprise our twisted American educational system:
In a 16-page packet sent home with students, teacher Tonya Uibel alerted parents that all students in her third grade class would have to participate in the activity [a fashion show to honor Women's History Month], since it would be graded as an "end of unit" assignment. The packet also included suggestions of how students may dress, including fashions from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s like bellbottoms, poodle skirts and cheerleader outfits. Photographs of fashion icons like Twiggy and Madonna are also included.
"If your child is a young man, he does not have to wear a dress or skirt, as there are many time periods where women wore jeans, pants and trousers. However, each child must be able to express what time period their outfit is from. Most of all, your child should have fun creating their outfit and learning about how women's clothing has changed!"
Forcing pre-adolescent boys to wear women's clothing as a means to learn about history is perverted in the extreme. However, it certainly could open up new career opportunities for troubled young boys.
On a fishnet tip from Anonymous Countermoonbat.
Democrats Seeking to Sabotage Tea Parties.
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 6:53 AM
First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.- Mohandas Gandhi
Former Democratic State Party Chairman Kathy Sullivan ... has been calling and e-mailing liberal activists trying to get them to attend tea parties in different parts of the state and hold signs denying the authenticity of President Barack Obama's birth certificate and make racially disparaging comments to reporters.
If the Tea Parties really were full of racists and idiots, the Dramacrats wouldn't have to be recruiting people to fake it, would they?
Why Not the USS Benedict Arnold?
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 6:18 AM
According to a Navy memorandum obtained by Navy Times, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus notified Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead that he had selected "John P. Murtha" for the previously unnamed LPD 26. It's the latest example of the Navy breaking a convention for naming its warships; the previous ships in the San Antonio class have been named for American cities.
Murtha, remember, unapologetically accused American Marines of engaging in what he called "cold-blooded murder" while defending themselves from insurgent attack.
There is nothing good about who John Murtha was or what he did.
Doc Says "I Quit" Because of ObamaCare
Posted by The MaryHunter at 4:30 AM
If you voted for Obamacare, be aware these doors will close before it goes into effect. ****Unless Congress or the Courts repeal the BILL.
So reads a sign out front of the office of Joseph M. Scherzer M.D., an Arizona dermatologist who sees the writing on the wall from ObamaCare.
Scherzer, who attended Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, has been a practicing Dermatologist in Scottsdale, Ariz., since 1976. Reached yesterday at his office, Dr. Scherzer, 63, said he plans to stop practicing before 2014 when the bill's full impact will be felt because he refuses to deal with the headache of increased government involvement in health care.
"I'm absolutely serious [about stopping practicing] and it's not just because I'll be nearing 65," Scherzer said. "The stress is what would push me out the door. From what I've gathered hearing from my friends and peers, most physicians I've heard from feel the same way."
Dr. Scherzer may be indicative of a first wave of ObamaCare-inspired retirements from medicine: older, wiser physicians with decades of experience and well-established practices, who simply cannot fathom watching their life's work morph into a twisted wad of government red tape. No doubt we will be hearing more stories just like this one as 2014 nears and physicians take the full measure of ObamaCare's intrusiveness. Combine this with predictions of a shortage of 150,000 doctors over the next 15 years and you have a prescription for disastrous socialized medicine in the US. We'll be lucky if we only get away with longer waits and higher costs.
You Know You're In Trouble When the French Make you Look Like a Wimp
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:09 AM
Yesterday, the George Soros Sockpuppet acting as the POTUS read the following from his Teleprompter:
"Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower."
I am guessing in his case the answer is "not."
Could it be any more obvious that Hussein is ashamed and embarrassed by American military power? Is there any other way to interpret that statement?
France will not give up nuclear weapons because doing so would "jeopardise" its security, President Nicolas Sarkozy said this morning as global leaders gathered for a summit on nuclear security. "I cannot jeopardize the security and safety of my country," Sarkozy said to CBS News.
The American president is a socialist who despises American military power. The French president is a capitalist who believes in Peace Through Strength. What the hell kind of crazy bizarro world is this?
Item #3: Support Pubic Education
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 3:42 AM
A school superintendent in New Jersey says a "misunderstanding" led an elementary school teacher to mandate that all students -- including young boys -- dress as women in a now-canceled fashion show to honor Women's History Month.
The Fashion Show was --- by amazing coincidence --- timed to correspond with the "National Day of Silence" when students across the country are supposed to take vows of silence to show what trendy politically-correct brainwashed little weenies they are support gay and lesbian students.
BTW, that "Crash the Tea Parties" website from last weekend... apparently, it was created by a public school teacher, on school time, using school resources.
Item #2: QQ Moar
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 3:38 AM
"Do I think that [the] negative atmosphere that's been created by the Tea Party and by others certainly goes into the thinking of members? I think it does. I think you have to honestly point out that it